Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
mohammadreza rohani; mohammad hosien shoaee
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Culture is considered one of the most complex concepts of social sciences, which is often explained in an analytical perspective, in the middle of a range of prescriptive and descriptive approaches; The mentioned duality has been considered as a starting point for cultural theories and has left an important ...
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Culture is considered one of the most complex concepts of social sciences, which is often explained in an analytical perspective, in the middle of a range of prescriptive and descriptive approaches; The mentioned duality has been considered as a starting point for cultural theories and has left an important impact on criticism and politics in the field of culture. Culture in the social theory of Muslims takes into account both descriptive and prescriptive aspects along with each other. This article is based on the theme analysis method in line with the concept of culture in the thought of Imam Khomeini (RA), while analyzing all his statements about culture, it uses the three stages of analysis, interpretation, and integration of the text. The research results show that there are four overarching themes including "the importance and function of culture, definition of culture, typology of culture, and strategy of culture" in explaining the concept of culture. Based on this, in the eyes of the Imam (RA), dependent culture is considered to hinder the growth of people and youth, which will be condemned to depreciation. On the other hand, one should achieve Iranian-Islamic culture while being aware of the corruptions of the West and confronting the vulgar Western culture by using its cultural advantages. Therefore, the most important development in the society is related to the field of culture, in order to achieve this goal, while purifying the culture from westernized people and purifying it to righteous (Iranian-Islamic) people, first of all, cultural self-confidence must emerge in the people, and secondly, art and media must be in opposition to The decadent culture of the West should be reconciled with the culture of Islam and Iran, and thirdly, while paying attention to the gradual transformation of culture, a kind of convergence should be created between the people, the media and the government.
hamid parsania; abdolhosein kalantari; mohamadreza rohani
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This paper is aimed to explore the relationship between the capacities of the Transcendent Philosophy and social consequences of the theory of Fetrat from the perspectives of Allameh Tabatabai and Motahhari. Islamic thinkers have consistently paid attention to the theory of Fetrat (innate disposition). ...
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This paper is aimed to explore the relationship between the capacities of the Transcendent Philosophy and social consequences of the theory of Fetrat from the perspectives of Allameh Tabatabai and Motahhari. Islamic thinkers have consistently paid attention to the theory of Fetrat (innate disposition). Among the Islamic thinker, the Transcendent Philosophy, by suggesting the idea of Quran-argument-mysticism has made an attempt to strengthen the theory of Fetrat. In particular, Allameh Tabatabai and Motahhari analyzed the mentioned theory, in terms of its both practical and theoretical consequence and the capacities of the Transcendent Philosophy. According to these Islamic thinkers, Fetrat is essentially one aspect of the Mohammadi Truth that the Almighty has vested in the human spirits to create divine conduct. According to Tabatabai and Motahhari, it is because of Fetrat that human beings are eagerly and lovingly inclined to absolute perfection. Human being, due to his/her conversation competency has achieved the highest rank of Fetrat, to the extent that based her/his Fetrat is able to reach the degree of being unified with the Mohammadi Truth. On the other hand, Fetrat has a crucial role in the human being’s mind and practice, since every human and social action is oriented towards eagerness to reach perfections and achievements.
