imam musa sadr’s political thought

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...

Comparative Study of the Concept of Justice in Imam Khomeini and SayyidQutb’s Political Thought

Justice is one of the most important tendencies andinteractions in human existence that sustains the human society. In addition,one of the fundamental conce...

Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the Concepts of Republic and Democracy in Imam Khomeini's Political Thought

Repu: blic and democracy are two terms applied to mean ruling of people since fifth century B.C. They have been especially and tremendously emphasized in west since 16th century. To clarify his ruling system prior and subsequent to the victory of revolution, Imam Khomeini applied these terms as well. What republic and democracy quantitatively and qualitatively mean in Imam Khomeini's political ...

Compiling Islamic Republic of Iran's Foreign Policy (With an Emphasis on Imam Khomeini's Political Thought)

With the victory of Islamic revolution, Iran's inclination toward the application of principlist attitudes in tension filled international arenas as a battlefield to secure national interests based on usually material attitudes created different challenges for Islamic republic of Iran. To resolve problems that occurred in domestic and foreign arenas, Imam Khomeini considered efforts to preserve...

Velayat-e Faqih in Political Thought of Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli

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...