فصلنامه مطالعات انقلاب اسلامی
پیاپی 23 (زمستان 1389)

Subsequent to the victory of Islamic revolution, religious democracy was followed as the democratic theory of the Islamic revolution. As democratic as it was, it had distinctivecultural features. Influence and waves of this democratization process were not restricted to Iranian territory, rather it tremendously contributed to reinforcement of democraticreforms processes in regional Islamic countries. Cultural proximity of Islamic countries with Iran initiated a wave in Muslim nations to demand democracy. This wave enjoyed allthe features Huntington had enumerated for democracy waves. Various aspects of this process can be studied and explained in three levels: macro, meso and micro.

The victory of Islamic revolution, revealed the weakness and unfunctionality of revolution theories in west. This unfunctionality not only is because of distinctive nature ofIslamic revolution but it also has roots in principles and fundamentals of western human sciences. Having followed the fundamentals of western human sciences, namelyindividualism, intellectualism, pragmatism, conventionalism, +++, western theoreticians have studied and analyzed a revolution which does not fit in the narrow and restrictiveframes of these theories. In other words, Islamic revolution has revealed the unfunctionality of these principles and theoritization. Therefore, by studying the principles and fundamentals of revolution theoritization in west offering examples, this article claims that a suitable analysis of Islamic revolution requires local science, a science which iscompliant with our culture and values.

Iranian Islamic revolution, as the starting point of Islamic awakening in late twentieth century, heralded a new era of Islam’s emergence that has made other Muslim nationsincluding Lebanese Shiites to become active. Thanks to Islamic revolution, Lebanese Shiites and specially Hezbollah movement have gradually played an increasing role inpolitical and social developments. Influencing cultural aspect (reinforcing Shiite identity), political aspect (more share of power) and social aspect (improvement of citizenship status), Iranian Islamic revolution has had a remarkable share in progress, development, social and political measures and victories of Lebanese Shiites specially Hezbollah movement.

Deos religious democracy only belong to shiite jurisprudential opinions or it has followers in sunnis as well? What are sunnis’ scientific and jurisprudential stance in this regard" The current research tries to answer these questions - even in brief through the viewpoint of political jurisprudence In this article, sunni scholars opinions regarding the legalityof the government such as domination, appointment by the preceding Caliph, inherited government and princedom, appointment by God and His prophet (PBUH) -which are allcontrary to democracy- and finally the theory of consensus - which is in favor of democracy- have been discussed and analyzed. At the end, it has been proven that theory of consensus, both affirmatively and confirmatively, is flawed and unreliable.

This article’s authors try to answer this question: What political and thought changes, the political currents have undergone during five eras of transition, holy defence,construction, reformism and conservatism" In this regard, we have tried to identify political and tought changes in Islamic Republic of Iran and have studied and analyzed major challenges faced by ruling political factions and their inclinations. This article tries to present an image of political and thought changes faced by political currents ineach political era. Along with this, it studies and analyzes turning points and political and thought alterations of political currents within the system.

What are the fundamental elements of self-denial and martyrdom discourse in the Islamic revolution process " To answer this question and to identify and descriptivelyanalyze the fundamental elements of self-denial and martyrdom discourse, discourse analysis method has been applied. Theoretical framework of this article and the bases tostudy are Vishnu and Dyke discourse theories. Therefore, fundamental elements of self-denial and martyrdom discourse from Vishnu and Dykes viewpoint -namely producers,subject, audience, production resources and suggested actions - have been studied and identified in formation and victory process of Islamic revolution.

Effectiveness of Student Basij relations and management of these relations go hand in hand with how much this organization is open to reforms and compliant with principlesof Islamic revolution, a goal which is plausible through identification of techniques for cultural transformation. The main question is this: What techniques are available forcultural transformation is Tehran University and Tehran University of Medical Sciences Student Basij as a religionoriented organization? Applying Delphi method, this studyindicates that only such solutions can be effective which are highly flexible and in accord with non-official organizations.