A Study and Analysis of the Hojjatieh Society in Comparison with the Discourse of Imam Khomeini Based on the Theory of Laclau and Mouffe

In this article, the socio-political conditions of contemporary Iran are discussed according to two discourses from their common religious point of view. During the Pahlavi regime, two discourses emerged: the "revolutionary discourse", which had popular power and a strong social origin, and the "Hojjatieh Society", which had supporters from different walks of people. Each of these two discourses had a specific reading of Mahdism and awaiting, and based on these readings, they had different discourses and had different outputs.
This research, based on "Laclau and Mouffe theory", with the method of discourse in descriptive-analytical form examines the central points (superior signifier), articulations, elements and times and areas of discourse of Pahlavi discourses taken from the West, Hojjatieh Society and Imam Khomeini and socio-political changes and has used library resources, interviews and videos to collect material. According to the findings, the Western-oriented discourse of Pahlavi within the theory of Laclau and Mouffe could not reconstruct its semantic signs and was blocked by the revolutionary signs of Imam Khomeini; But the discourse of the Hojjatieh Society was able to reconstruct itself and survive in the midst of changing discourses in both the Pahlavi regime and Imam Khomeini.