The Religious‐Text Features in Imam Khomeini’s Views and Their Influence on the Jurisprudential‐ Political Thought

• Main Author: Gholam Hassan Moqimi
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Qom Islamic Azad University 2015-06-01
• Series: سپهر سیاست
• Subjects: study of religious text; political‐jurisprudential thought; imam khomeini; governmental jurisprudence; systematic; comprehensiveness
• Online Access: http://se.journal.qom-iau.ac.ir/article_541011_5f58c594faed81d71b4b72b81d14bc6a.pdf

The mechanism of Imam Khomeini’s dynamic ijtihad, besides developing <br />a  systematic  relationship  with  the  sources  (the  Qur’an,  tradition, <br />consensus and wisdom), enjoys a logical link with time and space and <br />hence extracts the regulations for the political and social life out of <br />them.  Although  the  social  structures  of  time  and  space  limitthe <br />juristswithin the context of the social environment and the realities <br />of everyday political life (power relations), the only element for the <br />jurist theoreticians to develop political thoughtsis "the legitimacy and <br />supremacy of religious texts". <br />The  distinctive  characteristic  in  Imam  Khomeini’s  Jurisprudential <br />approach is its being based on religious texts. The present research <br />assumes that Imam Khomeini’s social, systematic and comprehensive <br />view toward the religious texts has caused his jurisprudential‐political <br />deductions to be social, systematic and comprehensive, as well. For <br />instance, he considers the governance as a component of religion <br />and among the primary rules. The consequence of such a view is that <br />Islam will be deficient without “the ruling of the religious leader”. <br />This article is based on a holistic approach with reaches beyond the <br />additive philosophy and it tries to extract the religious‐text features <br />in Imam Khomeini’s view and study their influence on the political‐<br />jurisprudential thoughts.