HASAN ONAT'IN ŞİÎLİK ARAŞTIRMALARI ÜZERİNE DEĞERLENDİRMELER.

Hasan Onat worked on Shiism, focused on the historical and social characteristics of this sect, tried to enlighten the conditions under which it was formed and the processes after which its basic ideas were formed. In terms of the basic ideas of this sect, he argued that the earliest Hijri period was formed in the last quarter of the first century, and that it transformed into a sect over time. In his studies on the formation period of the sect, he effectively used methods such as ideaevent connection, source criticism, avoidance of generalization, deepening on ideas, persons and events, and reasonableness in narrations. He argued that Shia could overcome the current problems experienced in the imamiyya by returning to the Quran, which is the founding text of Islam. He pointed out that the understanding of Mahdi, which is common in both Shiite and Sunni circles, is not a religious but a cultural problem, and pointed out that the sects should be examined with scientific methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]