The book has been published in cooperation with Maktab-e Wahy Publication Institute and Dar-ol-Mahajjah Al-Baydha Publications in Beirut.
Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Muhsin Husseini Tehrani, son of the late scholar, has written an introduction to the book, the Persian copy of which was published in the holy month of Ramadan.
The work is a collection of lectures by the late Ayatollah Sheikh Hussein Helli on Ijtihad and Taqlid presented in the Seminary of the holy city of Najaf and compiled by the late Allameh Tehrani 59 years ago.
The son of the scholar has also added discussions on the criteria of Ijtihad and Marja’iyyah to the book.
The 420-page book includes four main chapters investigating the principles and features of the status of Ijtihad and source of emulation.
Definitions of Ijtihad, obligations and principles of Ijtihad, lexical and idiomatic definition of Taqlid, when Taqlid is obligatory, criteria of Ijtihad and inference and the characteristics of a religious leader and source of emulation are among the themes discussed in the book.
Some 18 book titles in 52 volumes from among the works by Allameh Husseini Tehrani have been translated and published in Arabic language so far aiming to disseminate noble principles of Shia school of thought.
The late Ayatollah Haj Sheikh Hussein Helli was a religious scholar and a source of emulation in the holy city of Najaf and a top student of the late Allameh Nayini.
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