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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Imam Muhammad Al-Jawad The Age Of Imam Al-Jawad (A.S) The age of Imam Abu Ja'far al-Jawad (a.s) was one of the brightest and most wonderful Islamic ages. It was distinguished by its scientific rise and intellectual development. Muslims and other than Muslims remained living for generations and centuries on the tables of the intellectual and scientific treasures that had been established in that age.

We have to talk-in brief- about the aspects of the life in the age of Imam al-Jawad (a.s). Studying that age has become inevitable for researchers because it uncovers the dimensions of personality, leads to its intellectual sides and all its other sides. Cultural Life The cultural life in that age is considered as one of the most prominent aspects of life in all the Islamic ages at all.

Cultural movements have flourished, sciences have spread widely, institutes have been established, public libraries have spread everywhere and people came to seek knowledge eagerly.

Nicholson says, ‘The vast area of the Abbasid State, its abundant wealth and the prosperity of trade had a great influence on the cultural renaissance that the East had never witnessed before until it seemed that all people from the caliph to the meanest person in the society had suddenly become students seeking knowledge or at least assistants to literature.

During the reign of the Abbasid State, people traveled through three continents looking for sources of knowledge to come back to their countries like bees carrying with them honey to the eager students.

Then, they classified, by virtue of their great efforts, what they had got in books that they were like the encyclopedias of today which had the greatest favor on conveying these modern sciences to us in a way unexpected before..’[^1] Cultural Centers The cultural centers at the time of Imam al-Jawad (a.s) were: 1. Yathrib Yathrib (Medina) was one of the most important scientific centers in that age.

The school of Ahlul Bayt (a.s) had been established there and included the best jurisprudents and narrators who made every effort to record the traditions of the infallible imams of Ahlul Bayt (a.s) for these traditions were as the spirit and essence of Islam. In Yathrib, the school of had also been established. It was a jurisprudential school that took jurisprudence from the traditions narrated by the Prophet’s companions or due to opinion and analogy.