Leadership Ethics in Political Disputes Based on Sunnah [Traditions by the infallibles] and Sirah [the infallibles’ conduct]

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, University of Tehran

2 PhD of Teaching Islamic Revolution

Abstract

As a set of divine teachings to guide humans, Islam with its special anthropological viewpoint lays down ethical rules and creates internal and external controls in Islamic society when faced with enemy in order to decrease and eliminate grounds for animosity by correcting enemies' motives and perspective and finally changing and correcting their behaviors and social interaction with respect to the grounds of animosity.
Applying Islamic anthropology in the framework of laying down rules of leadership ethics in political disputes, this article discusses how leader of Islamic society should treat enemies and opposition who threaten the very existence of Islamic society from within.

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