It is needless to say that knowledge of imam is not possible without knowledge of imamate. This book is Ayatollah Jawadi's exposition of the reality of Imamate and its various aspects may it provide the necessary conceptual and intellectual apparatus and framework for the devoted writers of the Prophet's Household to be able to speak of them in a meaningful and effective fashion. This will help the scholars to immune themselves from the shallow objections and criticisms of the despisers and also engage the public in an intellectual context to know the heritage of prophet's holy descendents. This book contains two parts: the eulogies of imams, the elegies of Imams.

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative Iranian politician and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza in Qom. The official website for his scientific foundation, Isra, describes him as a well-known, outstanding thinker in various fields of Islamic sciences and a distinguished figure in exegesis, jurisprudence, philosophy and mysticism. It is further states that his ideas and views have been reinforcing the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and that "his strategic and enlightening guidance" has been "extremely constructive" during the past three decades.