it is near seventy years that the question of palestine and its occupation by the zionists has drawn attentions in iran. since the establishment of the zionist regime in palestine, many iranian politicians, intellectuals and even common people with various political backgrounds have paid attention to this question and have shaped several discourses in this regard. supporting the palestinian cau...

this article is to find an answer to the what and how of society with reference to the works of ayatollah motahhari. in addition, other moslem scholars' answers to the question are presented and compared to those of ayatollah motahhari and finally evaluated. the writer believes that though motahhari's reasoning for the existence of society is problematic, his justification for the pos...

Ayatollah Khomeini and Ali Shariati are seen as twin pillars of revolutionary Islam in contemporary Iran. This article contextualizes and compares these radical discourses in three sections. It first problematizes the transformation of Khomeini as a quietist cleric into a revolutionary ayatollah. While Khomeini’s theory of velayat-e faqih was a radical departure from the dominant Shiite traditi...

1 Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University-Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Amol, P.O. Box 678, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics Education and the RINS, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701, South Korea 3 Department of Mathematics, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, South Korea 4 Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università degli Stu...

this article is an attempt to study two historical junctures in the history of iran: from the qajar era to the mashrooteh movement; and from the pahlavi era to the islamic revolution. the two junctures have been studied from different perspectives; however, this article concentrates only on how political legitimacy emerged and diminished in the the above-mentioned revolutions. the basic questio...