Ijtihad and New Thinking

Today the fast developments and changes in human's life and occurring of new issues in social life have caused complex juqrisprudencial and legal implications. As a comprehensive, everlasting and universal religion, Islam should respond to such developments. Emphasizing on religions new thinking, the author rejects Liberal Democracy theories and adherence to Islamic principles, but refers to Ijtihad theories which are based on the time and situation, e.g. the theory of Imam Khomeini (r), the council-based Ijtihad (Hashemi Rafsanjani's theory) and its successful application in International Society of Islamic Jurisprudence, and the theory entitled ''Mantaqat Al-Feraq''.