Identifying and validating the characteristics of the "revolutionary system" in Imam Khamenei's thought Using contextual hermeneutic approach and Delphi method

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Shahroud Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahroud, Iran. (Author in charge of correspondence).

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Shahroud Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahroud, Iran.

3 Department of Political Science, Azadshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr, Iran

Abstract

The "revolutionary system" theory, known as the focal point of the strategic statement of the second step of the Islamic Revolution, is a theory that establishes a theoretical and operational link between revolutionary boiling and political order and can be an alternative to the theory of "good governance" in Islamic society. In this article, an attempt has been made to use Quantin Skinner's contextualist and intentional hermeneutic approach and to use Delphi's method, while specifying the intellectual backgrounds and ontological and anthropological foundations of Ayatollah Khamenei's (Modzaleh) thoughts, considering the three components of intention. The social context and the linguistic context of the author, the main features of the theory of the revolutionary system should be extracted and introduced in his thoughts. The method of data collection in this article is a qualitative method of documentary analysis and instrumentation, reading and fisheries. In the end, after extracting the main principles of the "revolutionary system" theory, it is concluded that the revolutionary system is a military system with dual bases of legitimizing the people and God, which is formed within the framework of religious values ​​and free will of the people. At the same time, it has always paid attention and emphasized, and its goal is to achieve a great Islamic civilization as the ultimate goal of the Islamic Revolution, and it has nineteen main indicators.

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