Islamic Revolution Research
Year:2013 | Volume:2 | Issue:4|Papers Count:11

The current study tries to find out whether Shiite political jurisprudence is viable and capable enough to resolve new social and political problems at the age of religious democracy. To find the answer, this article proposes a hypothesis that in view of its characteristics and capacities, Shiite jurisprudence is viable and capable enough to resolve new contemporary social and political problems.Having reviewed concepts and general issues, we have covered the concept of political jurisprudence as well as viability and other main political concepts. Finally we believe that the victory of Islamic republic of Iran initialized the movement of dynamic jurisprudence toward the discovery of theoretic and practical viability and capabilities of jurisprudence which needs theorization in political jurisprudence and religious democracy as a result.

With the introduction of the term political representation during the constitutional movement, several discussions have been put forth about the nature of political representation the most important of which is whether it is synonymous with attorneyship or not. In a general division viewpoints of scholars in this regard can be divided into two main groups. Those people who accept the shar’i attorneyship of political representation and those who oppose this concept. They include five other assumptions each should be discussed in its due position.According to the results obtained from the study of these viewpoints and their implications, political representation can’t be accepted as shar’i attorneyship in jurisprudence.However it can be accepted under other subjects such as consultancy for wali faqih or other sections of jurisprudence.

The current article is in charge of reflecting roots of western view of synonymity of a system’s legality with the vote of the majority. This view is accepted by political and legal thinkers of west and has been considered as a peerless model for political systems. With a critic view on the verbal meaning of democracy, this article tries to find the meaning which is common among the different approaches toward this term, to retrieve historical ups and downs of democracy in the occident and to study reasons why it has been at the center of attention in recent centuries; then along with consolidating Imam Khomeini’s view on western democracy and adding the critic view on the synonymity of legality with people’s acceptance, we have revealed that the theory of western democracy fails to assume a stable mechanism for the roots of sovereignty, a defendable ground for the origins of power, a standing structure to control the rulers and a trustable process to delegate power to the agents.

The current article studies the role of people’s political expectations and its influence on their reliance on officials. Screening and questionnaire have been applied in this research. The main concern of this article has been to study the effects of an increase in people’s political expectations on their reliance on officials. According to the results obtained from analyzing the questionnaire, the main hypothesis of the research was proved to be right and it suggests a negative meaningful correlation between people’s political expectations and their reliance on officials.

Having thoroughly studied discussions during the ratification of article no.8 of the constitution and jurisprudential viewpoints about the executing body and how “amr be ma’ roof” [commending the good] and “nahy az monkar” [forbidding the evil] should be executed, existing approaches regarding how this fariza [obligation by Allah (SWT)] should be implemented have been analyzed and criticized in the frameworks of two viewpoints first of which believes in the “necessity of creating a special institution for amr be ma’ roof and nahy az monkar” and second which does not believe in the necessity of such an institution. For the first viewpoint there are two groups. One group believes in the formation of an executing and supervising institution while the other believes in the establishment of a supervising institution only.

The main inquiry of this article is to find out what factors have been influential in the stability or instability of political coalitions during the era of Islamic republic of Iran. In a general study of socio-political developments in the era of Islamic republic of Iran, a kind of instability is generally witnessed in the relations and interactions among the political elites, activists, groups and associations. Instabilities during the first decade after revolution can be analyzed based on conditions such as the fledgling revolutionary society as well as the imposed war. However during the second and third decade conditions changed. During these decades coalitions formed among the revolutionary and Islamist groups ruptures giving birth to new groupings and coalitions with new characteristics.

Identification of strengths and weaknesses and determining opportunities and threats are among the most influential factors for national security of a country.Therefore discovering and extracting these four factors is closely related to providing national security, its decline or even its destruction as well as political survival of independent political units.With this approach, investigating strengths and weaknesses of as well as current or possible opportunities and threats for the Islamic republic of Iran becomes gravely important.

Having explained the concept of global governance, the author has used reliable reports of future study to extract the possible scenarios for global governance and possible implication of each scenario on Islamic Republic of Iran’s global position as a revolution based on freedom seeking and the role of religion in political arena. Finally a review of the discussed issues has been provided regarding the status of Islamic republic of Iran.

Applying descriptive analysis, this article tries to explain objectives, tools and strategies desired by Imam Khomeini to exportat the revolution. In Imam Khomeini’s opinion, these objectives include: implementing international goals of Islam, preparing the ground for the reappearance of 12th Imam, reviving Muslims’ identity and their unity, depicting the real picture of Islam, awakening of nations and exporting the experiences of the revolution, supporting freedom seeking movements, defending the oppressed, fighting global arrogance, utilizing rites of the Islamic world such as pilgrimage to Mecca and supporting the cause of Palestine and uprising nations as strategies of exporting the revolution have been taken into account by Imam Khomeini. Also in his opinion, to export the revolution official and unofficial tools such as institutions and mass media, scientific centers and elites etc, should be utilized.

This article tries to find out the role of Iran in the formation of Hezbollah in Lebanon. To this end, all the factors and grounds influential in the formation of this fraction have been studied and analyzed. Finally Iran’s role as the main factor has been studied as well.