Current developments in western Asia suggest three new identity models have started to form and compete. Main inquiry of this article is to know what relation is there between these models. Hypothesis of the article proposes that through reproduction of the identity in an evolving process, each one of these identities has undertaken a role based on their historical identity and in a social grou...

Due to its cultural capacities, Islamic revolution of Iran has challenged US interests in Islamic world especially the sensitive area of middle-east through the application of cultural power and soft power earlier than US. Islamic awakening, political and revolutionary Islam which has spread all over Arab Countries in middle-east and north Africa is an outcome of methods, tools and soft power a...

Martyr Seyyed Muhammad Baqer Sadr is one of the scholars who have offered a relatively comprehensive theory regarding the nature, possibility, necessity and conditions of a revolution with the leadership of Islam and how this type of revolution can be implemented. His theory about revolution is not of post-revolutionary or analytic type but is pre-revolutionary and norm-based or guiding and den...

The main hypothesis of this article is "three waves of Islamic revolutionary awakening and uprising". Here, these three waves have been studied in terms of their civil, religious and revolutionary aspects from local, regional and global perspective on the short, the mid and the long run as the strategic infrastructure and infrastructural strategy for new uprisings. Important elements will be re...

The formation of Islamic movements and extremist groups in the contemporary Islamic world has raised many questions about the fields, goals, and approaches related to Islamist groups and movements for sociology scholars. Given the differences between extremist groups and Islamic movements, the difference in their formation is of particular importance. Accordingly, the present study seeks to ans...