Hawzah Ilmiah of Qom and the Current Approach of the Clergymen to Political Jurisprudence

Before the Islamic revolution of Iran and before the formation of "political jurisprudence" in the Hawzah Ilmiah, most 'political discussion's have been scattered in different sections of jurisprudential texts. But the attempt of the clergymen in three recent decades for conceptualizing the political life of the believers on the basis of religious texts has created diverse branches of political science; these branches previously existed only as the margin of more general sciences such as jurisprudence and philosophy. Nowadays political jurisprudence, which tends to be independent from general jurisprudence, tries to expertly observe political matters and analyze them in a special and documented structure. Yet unlike the years before the revolution in which two main active and passive approaches existed in jurisprudence in regard with new-born matters, today more diverse tendencies with major differences has appeared among the jurists. The main intention of this article is to answer these questions: "what are these approaches and what are their differences and results?"