mahmoud naghdipour; Abdolvahed Ghaderi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2020, , Pages 183-202
Abstract
Before the outbreak of World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, thinkers in the Islamic world often interpreted the two categories of religion and state as interconnected concepts ...
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Before the outbreak of World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, thinkers in the Islamic world often interpreted the two categories of religion and state as interconnected concepts and did not believe in the separation of religion and state. Towards the end of the Ottoman Empire and the mid-Qajar period, with the growth of Western political thought in the Islamic world and later with the fall of this empire, modern political thought grew and expanded among Muslim intellectuals and modernists. In the nineteenth century, students who went to Europe, influenced by the idea of the nation-state, called for the separation of religion and state. With the coming to power of the Pahlavi government, this trend was further strengthened and entered into a serious challenge with the religious spectrum. Imam Khomeini, who was in charge of the seminary after the death of Ayatollah Boroujerdi, tried to link it to all aspects of human life by presenting a comprehensive interpretation of religion. The present study tries to explain his answer in the form of mainly socio-political issues by asking the question of what is meant by the Imam's holistic interpretation of Islam.
