فصلنامه رهیافت انقلاب اسلامی
پیاپی 20 (پاییز 1391)

Achieving a model for the analysis and comparison of the political culture of Iran requires the study and examination of the system, procedure and policymaking in the social and political process. Iran, having had periods of ups and downs, has provided its people a lot of experiences. Despite of the existing structures of political participation, political culture in the second Pahalvi era has not developed a lot, due to the weakness of the political culture. Through the victory of the Islamic revolution, good grounds and structures were provided for achieving the participative political culture.This paper has made comparisons through the historical-comparative method based on Almond’s theory of political culture(with some modifications) and has concluded that, after the Islamic revolution, the share of the participative political culture has been more than other kinds and the development in Iranians’ political culture is remarkable.

The realization of people’s role and place in governance of a country is among the issues that determine the political fate of a society. There are different approaches to this issue and each thinker on the basis of his understanding of the issue considers people’s role crucial or otherwise. In the Muslim political thought, the issue falls within the realm of religious government. The present paper is an attempt to comparatively study the viewpoints of two Muslim jurisprudents (Imam Khomeini and Mohammad Baqir Sadr) about the role of people in the governance. The issue will be studied in the light of theoretical principles of democracy and subjective and objective elements of democracy. The data for the present paper has been garnered through documental method.

After three decades of Islamic Revolution in Iran, the world witnesses new revolutions and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Because of their importance, this article compares Iranian and Egyptian revolutions and examines the impact of Islamic discourse in making each of these revolutions. The main question in this research is that is Islam the main discourse in Egyptian revolution, as it was in Iranian revolution. This research is of descriptive- comparative type. To do this research, objective evidence in historical reports are examined.

Imam Khomeini’s poems, in addition to their literary attractions, belong to a evolutionary leader and an effective man in the contemporary world. In this article, according to discourse analysis and Halliday’s functional grammar, these poems are studied. In order to concentrate on Imam’s personality and personal reflections in his poems, just the statements beginning with the subject “I” were analyzed. The results show that in a private introverted approach he has noticed fordefining and distinguishing “I”. Also negating egoism, he introduces “I” a passionate lover who surrenders for the beloved and knows no power beside him.

The constitutional revolution in contemporary history for the first time succeeded in changing value system and social structure in Iran. This changes in value system for the first time appeared in the Persian poetry and literature. These changes and transformations in thoughts are products of changes in the thoughts of Iranian scholars, political thinkers and poets who were progressive revolutionaries during the revolution. This article attempts to examine the rise and reflection of some of political and social concepts in those poems.

Soft power in the process of Islamic revolution of Iran is, not only important at internal level but, Imam Khomeini,s messages at regional and international level revived the identity of Islamic world, promoted Islamic awakening, and restructured Islamic civilization. In this article it is attempted to examine the dimensions of Islamic soft power and to recognize the main damages to Islamic revolution.

article studies the function of Islamic revolutionary committees during and after Islamic Revolution in Iran. The main question in this article is that what was the functions of islamic revolutionary committees during and after Islamic revolution of Iran in struggling against counter-revolutionaries. The research is a qualitative one and to analyze those functions, historical documents and data are examined.