Al-Hawza al-'Ilmiyya: Difference between revisions

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Shi'a seminary's educational system has always been text-based and the first step of a student is acquiring the power to properly understand the text. Shia Seminaries focus on certain texts and use commentaries on text-books. These texts were written by top teachers of seminaries and have often had complications in understanding which were explained by teachers when teaching them, so that mastery of teachers were evaluated by their competence in explaining the complications and the students were evaluated by their competence in interpreting these texts. Shi'a seminaries educational system which is based on the teacher-student interaction and working on a text has been developed through methods below. These methods, more than anything, has been based on [[Imams|Imams' (a)]] teaching method for their companions and students: