Cooperation with the oppressive government from the perspective of Sayyed ibn Tavous and Ibn Fahad Helli

Hilla Theological School is one of the Shiite scientific centers that many scholars were proud of during the sixth to eighth centuries. Sayyed Ibn Tavous (d. 665) and Ibn Fahad Helli (d. 841) are two theological scholars in the school of Hilla. Their lives were different in two periods of time so that Sayyed Ibn Tavous lived at the end of the Abbasid caliphate and the beginning of the rule of the Mongol ilkhans who were called Jair(Oppressor) in Shiite political thought; But Ibn Fahad Helli was born about two centuries later at a time when these Oppressive governments had disintegrated the governments of the tribal monarchies had risen and the number of Shiites had increased more than before; This difference caused when these two Shia thinkers, while both of them were followers of the jurisprudential-theological current in the school of Hilla, had different political thoughts and their policies were different in dealing with the oppressive ruler. In the present study, which has been done by descriptive-analytical method, by using library resources and criticizing the reports in them, we have made a comparative study of the political thought of Sayyed Ibn Tavous and Ibn Fahad Helli.