Extremism and Yamani Claimant's Movement’s Undue Readings of the Religious Elements

Historically speaking and based on field observations, extremism constitutes one of the biggest challenges in the world that entails many cultural and social risks. It’s now a long time that researchers have pointed out numerous problems of extremism with all the differences they have had in all ages and eras. Extremist flows that are rooted in ignorance and arrogance use various means to realize and express individual and social violence, the most obvious of which is the incorrect reading of religious components.The movement of Yemeni claimant, which has emerged in Iraq in the last two decades, has promoted religious extremism among religious communities with its various claims in the field of Mahdism, with superficial, extremist and exaggerated interpretations of verses, traditions, and the lives of prophets and imams.This article has been done with a descriptive-analytical method and based on library and virtual sources with a half-view of the history of religious extremist culture in Islam, it has explained the extremism of the Yemeni movement through the undue readings of religious issues.The results indicate the extremisms of this movement in religious, practical and social matters, which are in the form of believing in the incarnation of God, the Lordship of the Prophet and Imams, polytheism of the Prophets and Imams, excommunication of Shias who do not believe in this claimant, and the promotion of desecration of their property, encouraging uprising and armed violence, socio-political challenges, extremism in social interactions and destruction of jurisprudence, etc. are visible.

Keywords:

Yamani claimant's movement , Ahmad al-Hassan , Extremism , religious subjects , religious readings , Social challenges