On October 26, 1964, with a few days delay due to the United States presidential election, Imam Khomeyni was arrested and deported to Turkey. Imam Khomeyni’s resided in Turkey for eleven months, during which he was subjected to psychological and...

Studying the Concepts of Ethics and Politics The conceptual reviews help understand the content and findings of the article: The concept of ethics: literally, the word ethics refers to the traits and inner attributes of the human being. Hence, the...

The two factors of leadership and people as well as their interactions play an important role in the studying of the revolutions. This has led the theories of the revolution to be divided into two categories in terms of the importance they attach to each...

One of the ways to know more about the great political and religious figures is to compare their political life and especially their methods of fighting the enemy as well as their services to the country’s political modernization. When and under...

The main question of this article is: what is the position of the lower classes from Imam Khomeini’s perspective? Also, by considering the main question and using the proposed theories and other exploratory studies we may find other important...

The theoretical basis of Imam Khomeini’s attitude regarding the political-social issues is the concept of “felicity” and all his intellectual-political endeavours can be evaluated within this context. Imam Khomeini sees secular,...

Political mobilization consists of four elements that we will examine in the context of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Ideology: In the Islamic ideology, the social order is subject to law, sovereignty belongs to God and law should be the divine law....

The Islamic Republic We want to explore the Islamic feature of Imam Khomeini’s favourable government; the system of Islamic Republic based on Wilayat al-Faqih (the Guardianship of the Jurisprudent) first appeared in Shi’ah thought, with...

The idea of ​​forming a Jewish state in Palestine was so despicable that it stirred a public reaction in the Muslim world and prevented the Zionists from enjoying control over Jerusalem. But the Muslim response to the occupation of the Palestinian...

Imam Khomeyni, who had been briefly aware of the presence of American, British, and Israeli military and security advisers and their detrimental activities in the country, was informed about the incident a few days after the National Assembly had enacted...

In order to study the task-orientalism in Imam Khomeini’s political thought, we would discuss the aspects of this concept as well as the relationship between duty and consequence in his political thought:  The Aspects of Duty-Orientalism in...

One of the theoretical challenges in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic as a goal-oriented system of governance is to resolve the conflict between idealism and realism. To address this, various solutions have been put forward such as the Islamic...

Dividing the duties into general and individual is one of the jurisprudential innovations in Imam Khomeini’s thought. Imam Khomeini considered the legitimate rhetoric to be of two types; the general, legal, and legislative rhetoric that is declared...

The mysticism of Imam Khomeini was a response to “Who should rule?” and his jurisprudence was a response to “How to govern?” Imam Khomeini has said: “It has been said that there is a theoretical nous for man which is...

The Position of Legitimacy in Political Systems Legitimacy plays an important role in political philosophy and is one of the most controversial issues in the field of political thoughts, especially in the contemporary era. Hence, the great scholars of...

Imam Khomeini considers the model of the religious ruling to be the legal (jurisprudential) sovereignty. The legal government, according to his view, can be explained through the justifying principle and its main features and context. In the view of Imam...

Despite having similarities, the rights of citizenship and human rights are different. The concept of the rights of citizenship denotes a set of civil, political and social rights that people enjoy because they have become members of a nation-state and...

  As far as the nature of Imam Khomeini’s strategy of struggle is concerned, one can say that the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran didn’t resort to armed struggle against the Pahlavi regime. Rather, he believed in adopting the...

In this section, the reasons which are related to the social actors of the Islamic Revolution in Imam Khomeini’s thoughts are discussed. In this regard, we will begin with the leaders as the influential actors and then we will study the role of the...

The present article deals with the reconstruction of the paradigm of the Islamic Revolution in Imam Khomeini’s thoughts. The purpose of this article is to analyze Imam Khomeini’s thoughts regarding the Islamic Revolution of Iran and to draw a...