political thought of kashfi

mystical aspects in political thought of seyyed jaafar kashfi

in terms of time, iranian mystic seyyed jaafar kashfi belongs to the era that is known as the end of the political thought era, from the perspective of decline theory. however, he is one of the great thinkers of the qajar era who in his two books entitled “tohfat al-muluk” and “mizan al-muluk” presented his political thought on the basis of mystical way. the main question in this research is wh...

The Concept of “Political Legitimacy” in Shia Political Thought (With Focus on Imam Khomeini’s Political Thought)

Legitimacy is always considered an important concept among basic topics of political science; since it has been already posed as the prerequisite of acceptability for exercising of power in the societies through history. Accordingly, all of the political philosophies made efforts to establish an intellectual apparatus that enforces the fundamentals of governance, dealt to some extent with the i...

Virtue in Machiavelli’s Political Thought

The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...

Machiavelli and the Foundation of the Modern Political Thought

The present article intends to start introduction to the political thinking of          Machiavelli by passing through some key concepts in his thinking, and by placing his idea in the area of political thinking. Surveying ethics in Machiavelli’s political thinking needs     separate individual ethics from political (civil) one.  And explaining Machiavelli’s remarks about the category of ethics...

political thought of sunni sect or political thought of islam? book review: political thought in medieval islam

this paper firstly introduces the structure and the content of 'political thought in medieval islam'. the content has two main parts, covering ten chapters totally. in the main part of the paper some critical notes are mentioned and some ameliorative and constructive suggestions are presented. the major headlines of these critiques are as follows: lacking clear methodology and theoret...

The Confusion of Language in Political Thought