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Diverging Approaches of Political Islamic Thought in Iran since the 1960s

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This chapter examines Political Islam in the Iranian context and starts by providing a definition with particular reference to an application of ideological thought. It analyses the key ideas associated with Khomeini, Shariati and Bazargan. This chapter forms the theoretical foundation for the following corpus.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Constitutional Revolution in Iran in 1906 was a turning point which transferred the absolute power wielded by King to limitation by constitution.

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    The guardianship of the Jurisconsult is an expression in Sharia law which, according to contemporary Iranian context, grants power to the supreme leader.

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    The sources of fiqh in Shia Islam are based on The Qur’an, Hadith (sayings of prophet and the 12 Imams), rationality based on revelation, consensus of community. The sources of Sunni fiqh are based on Qur’an, Sunnah of the Prophet, consensus of community, and analogy. The differences lie in fiqh sources but in the political realm Sunnis and Shia political Islam is divided along liberal, left and jurisprudential Islam line of thinking.

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    The Imamate is a tradition in Shia Islam with reference to the household of Prophet Mohammad as the only source of true successors to the leadership of the Prophet. It started with Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet, and ended with the disappearance (occultation) of Imam Mahdi who was the 12th in the series of Imams.

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    Abu Zar was one of the closest companions of Prophet Mohammad. He was the closest companion to the household of the Prophet. He and others who were close to Ali are known as the Party of the Shia’s. Abu Zar was known as a campaigner against the corruption of the Umayyad family which ruled over Damascus, because of his opposition to the accumulation of wealth by certain Islamic Emperors.

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Lolaki, S.M. (2020). Concepts and Context. In: Diverging Approaches of Political Islamic Thought in Iran since the 1960s. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0478-5_2

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