An Exploration of Ayatollah Beheshti’s Political Viewpoints Based on Springers’s Method

An Exploration of Ayatollah Beheshti’s Political Viewpoints Based on Springers’s Method Abstract An Exploration of Ayatollah Beheshti’s Political Viewpoints Based on Springers’s Method Abstract The following enquiry aims at analyzing Beheshti’s political viewpoints using Springer’s method, this research aims at answering the question of the evolvement of Beheshti’s political standpoint. Findings of the research show his political viewpoints to be rooted in his understanding of his then-contemporary world crises. From his point of view, “idolatrous sovereignty” was the urgent crisis in the contemporary world. He believed tyranny, the prevalence of materialistic and non-religious thoughts, and subjection to be the causes of idolatrous sovereignty.” Nation- leadership” system, traced as utopia by Beheshti, would have been achieved by establishing guardianship of the Islamic jurist, forming committed cadre, institutionalization, freedom propagating and social justice fulfilling. Keywords: the crisis, idolatrous sovereignty, freedom, guardian ship of the Islamic jurists, nation- leadership system, institution. nation- leadership system, institution.