Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
fateme kamrani; somaye hamidi; Peyman zanganeh
Abstract
Modernism is a type of social life and institution whose primary paradigm is a self-reflective, self-critical wisdom that perpetually evaluates human traditions. This phenomenon originated in the West and spread progressively to other regions. The emergence of this way of thinking in Iran elicited various ...
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Modernism is a type of social life and institution whose primary paradigm is a self-reflective, self-critical wisdom that perpetually evaluates human traditions. This phenomenon originated in the West and spread progressively to other regions. The emergence of this way of thinking in Iran elicited various responses. Some of the intelligentsia attempted to establish a secular and modern order by rejecting traditional and religious values and imitating non-western styles. In contrast, a number of religious intellectuals who flourished primarily in the forties and fifties of the Shamsi calendar opposed this idea and attempted to rely on religious values, correct it with modern ideas compatible with Islam, and prevent the penetration of Western ideas into their culture and civilization. Imam Khomeini, one of the intellectuals of the forties and fifties according to the Shamsi calendar, studied and criticized western humanistic and colonial aspects, while accepting some of its civilizational principles according to Islamic interpretation. Analytical-descriptive methodology is used in this study to examine the effect of Modernism Mindset on Imam Khomeini’s thought, based on three principles of Lacan as a religious intellectual and his desired social-political order. Imam Khomeini's reputation as one of the most influential religious thinkers of the 1940s and 1950s is founded on a critique of the west’s colonial and humanistic aspects. Although he adopts certain intellectual principles of Western civilization in accordance with his religious interpretation, he employs them to create his transcendent sociopolitical order. However, research indicates that Imam Khomeini opposed Shah’s iconoclastic and anti-modern actions, preached the truth, and attempted to reconstruct a political system based on sublime religious values through symbolic action.
somaye hamidi; beigom naseri; hossein farzanepour
Abstract
Knowing the issue of Iran's retardation in Qajar Era, intellectuals began to think about the causes of this, disadvantages of establishing state in Iran and considered its change a factor of advancement and booming in The West. Attempts to understanding renewal viewpoints in The West and imitating it ...
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Knowing the issue of Iran's retardation in Qajar Era, intellectuals began to think about the causes of this, disadvantages of establishing state in Iran and considered its change a factor of advancement and booming in The West. Attempts to understanding renewal viewpoints in The West and imitating it caused analyze and recognize thoughts of this group in relation to identity foundations. Some of them consider religion as the factor of retardation and decline of Iran's society against modernity and considered Islam as a disabled entity to present a noble pattern for change in political-social structure. Mostashar-Al-Doule is among the intellectuals of constitutional era and tries to adapt the modern sovereignty statements with content of Quran, and prove the modernity compatible with Islam. This paper tries to interpret and adapt the content with modern sovereignty statements based on one-word treaty. The achievement of present study indicates that the main objective of compiling one-word is attempt to present adaptation of Islam and Modernity along with native and religious content of modern sovereignty that is easy to understand based on Quran content, Islamic Sayings and focusing on comprehensive Islam Religion in relation to modern thought in The West. This research while rejecting dominant approaches of tis time, i.e. pre-constitutional era based on incompatibility of religion and modernity and utility exploitation of religion, renders a new representation of it.
