Introducing Imam Khamenei's Religious Democracy Political Thought and Participatory Democracy (Considering the Barriers to Democracy)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D Student of Political Science, Islamic Azad University Shahreza Branch

2 Faculty, Department of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Shahreza Branch

3 Faculity Member and Assistant Profissor of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Shahreza Branch

Abstract

From the point of view of Imam Khamenei as an Islamic thinker and thinker, the Islamic government has its own way of governing the society and it is not such that it can achieve its goals by using Western methods. The reason for this is that the methods are valuable in religious democracy. This approach, while opposed to Western democracy, also contradicts tyranny and dictatorship. Imam Khamenei, therefore, has emphasized this new and innovative method, which has been interpreted as religious democracy, as a new, innovative and innovative method that can be used in the analysis of current political systems. Take note. On the other hand, individualism is one of the undeniable features of Western thought. So the foundations of Western democracy, and even the best of them, such as participatory democracy, are either in practice or inapplicable or, in many cases, facing paradigmatic challenges, in the face of Islam being a holistic worldview. The researchers found in this descriptive and analytical study that Islamic thinking is fundamentally different from Western thinking and that these differences are at the fundamental epistemic levels, which are at the core of the subject of these two thinking and that of religious democracy. They are fundamentally at odds with participatory democracy. Therefore, the main issue of this research is to introduce and identify two theories of religious democracy according to the political ideas of Imam Khamenei and participatory democracy with regard to the existing ideas in Western schools as well as introducing obstacles to democracy.

Keywords

References

1. Imam Khamenei, Seyyed Ali, 1381, Hadith Shukofai, Tehran, Zafar Publishing.
2. Iman, Mohammad Taqi and Kalate-Sadati, Ahmed, (2013), Comparison of Paradigmatic Components in Liberal Democracy and Islamic Democracy with Emphasis on the Concepts of Man and Freedom, Tehran, Publishing Center of Iranian Islamic Model of Progress.
3. Popper, Karl, (2010), Open Society and its Enemies, translated by Ezzatullah Foladvand, Tehran, Kharazmi Publications.
4. Tagvi, Seyyed Mohammad Nasser, (2009), Models of Democracy (1), Tehran, Political Science Quarterly, No. 22.
5. Ghorbani, Amir, (2015), Political Articles (Political Philosophy 1), Tehran, Khane Kitab Publishing House.
6. Cunningham, Frank, 2017, Theories of Democracy (a critical introduction to the later theories of democracy), translated by Saeed Khavari-Nejad, Tehran, Duniya Ekhtaz Publications.
7. Saeedi, Mehdi, (2012), Religious democracy from the perspective of Ayatollah Khamenei, Tehran, Publishing Center of Islamic Revolution Documents.
8. Lobozetti, Gianka, (1367), Lessons of this century, translated by Ali Paya, Tehran, New Design Publications.
9. Mirahamdi, Mansour, (1388), Theory of Religious Democracy, Tehran, Shahid Beheshti University Press.
10. Mirahamdi, Mansour, (2014), Islam and Participatory Democracy, Tehran, Ney Publishing.
11. Nowrozi, Mohammad Javad, (2012), Islamic Political System, Tehran, Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute Publishing.
- Authentic articles:
12. Khorramshad, Mohammad Baqer and Amini, Parviz, (2016), A proposed model to explain Ayatollah Khamenei's theory of religious democracy, Tehran, Political Science Quarterly, 2020, No. 77.
13. Darabi, Ali, (2017), Religious democracy and its relationship with political development in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Political Studies Quarterly, Year 5, Number 18.
14. Zakaria, Farid, (2007), The Future of Freedom; The priority of liberalism over democracy, Tehran, New Design Publications.
15. Emadi, Abbas, (2013), democracy, components and indicators, people's sovereignty, political legitimacy, political military, political science, Tehran, political quarterly of Bagheral Uloom Research Institute.
16. Karmi-Moleh, Ali, (2013), Religious Democracy Model and National Security, Tehran, Strategic Studies Quarterly, Year 17, Number 2.
17. Ghasemi, Zahra and Behzadi, Mohammad Hossein, (2013), examining the position of leadership and political thought of Ayatollah Khamenei in religious democracy, Ardabil, Publications of the General Department of Islamic Culture and Guidance of Ardabil Province.
18. Golshani, Alireza and Khodaparast, Yunus, (2016), The foundations of governance in the Islamic-Iranian model of progress, Tehran, the fifth conference on the Iranian Islamic model of progress.
19. Mohammadi, Manouchehr, (2008), Religious democracy in the Islamic Republic or theo-democracy, Tehran, Faculty of Law and Political Science Quarterly, Shamazeh 54.
20. Mirahamdi, Mansour, (2006), New Critical Theory, Deliberative Democratic Order and Religious Democracy Model, Tehran, Political Science Journal, Year 3, Number 1.
21. Nabovi, Syed Morteza, (2013), Religious Democracy and Other Types of Democracy, Tehran, Strategic Research Quarterly, No. 32.
22. Vali-zadeh, Abolqasem, (2014), comparing the foundations and indicators of religious democracy with liberal democracy, Tehran, National Conference on the Future of Humanities and Development, article no. 233.
23. - Authentic websites and statements of the Supreme Leader:
24. Statements of the Supreme Leader in the gathering of faithful and zealous people of Saveh city on 28/08/1379
25. Statements of the Supreme Leader during Friday prayers in Tehran on 23/02/1379
26. Statements of the Supreme Leader in the meeting between the President and members of the government on 05/06/2013
27. Statements of the Supreme Leader in the meeting of the members of the Assembly of Experts on 18/12/2013
28. Statements of the Supreme Leader at the meeting of thinkers and intellectuals of the Islamic world on 02/11/2013
- English sources:
29. Christopher M. Clark, "Iron Kingdom the rise and fall of Prussia", Harvard University Press, 2006.
30. Crozer, Michel, J. Huntington, Samuel.P, and Watanuki, Joli, The Crisis of Democracy, New York University Press, 1975.
31. Harrison. R. Taylor & Francis, (2001) "Democracy, e-Library Pub".
32. J.R. Lewis, Democracy, Allman and Son, London, 1966. P13
33. Gagnon, V.P, Jr, Serbia's Road to War, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
34. Pateman, Carole, Participation and Democratic Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1970.

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics