Ma`rifat Siyasi

One of the fundamental issues on the theory of the guardianship of religious jurist is reviewing the evidence in the transmitted sciences on it. By "guardianship" we mean the presidency and authority of a person who is capable of extracting and inferring Islamic rules and laws from Islamic sources. The present paper tries to offer an approach to a new framework by which the transmitted evidence in are explored, thus paving the way for using other neglected evidence. To this end, the main concern of this paper is to examine the typology of the evidence in the transmitted sciences on the guardianship of religious jurist. The evidence is of three types: negative evidence that prohibits referring to and establishing relations with conventional governments in different levels; positive evidence through which those who are suited and are granted God's permission to rule are known; and finally collated evidence which refers to the narrations in which the message of either of two previous sides is presented.