seyyed asef kazemi

The contemporary history of the Islamic world faces various challenges and crises. One of the most important challenges and crises is divergence and dissociation which requires convergent theorizing, performance and behavior. Islamic thinker and elites have presented various and valuable answers and solutions to this problem. In the present article, the solution presented by Ayatollah Khamenei and Malik bin Nabi were investigated as civilizational convergence based on Spragens's conceptual model of crisis. Based on Spragens's four stage theory of crisis in which is stage is built upon the previous one, our current conditions does not have any direction towards convergence and our current crisis is a civilizational crisis which is the result of intellectual, cultural problems and the network of social relations and in order to reach the ideal picture i.e. the unified nation, we must move towards civilizational convergence which seems to be the solution of this problem and crisis.

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is one of the most distinctive and most prominent revolutions in the world that occurred in the twentieth century and in the consternation and surprise of all analyzes, plans and intelligence and information organizations of the arrogant world. The fields and factors, goals and aspirations and also the achievements of this revolution, have been examined by Muslim and non-Muslim writers. One of the countries that has recently experienced the phenomenon of revolution is the Tunisian state. A series of massive social protests (2010-2011) eventually led to the famous Yasmin Revolution in Tunisia. In the present paper, we seek to compare the areas, goals and achievements of this revolution with the Yasmine Revolution in Tunisia and try to answer the question of how the Yasmine Revolution in Tunisia has similarities and differences in its fields, goals and achievements compared with the Islamic Revolution of Iran? The results of the studies and available information show that the Tunisian Revolution has similarities and abundant subscriptions with the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and in many cases it is also affected. Despite the great similarity between the two revolutions, their differences are abundant and not comparable to the similarities of the two. The differences and disagreement between the two revolutions are salient and obvious in goals and achievements, most notably lack of unity and centralized leadership, lack of ideology and religious orientations, and lack of independence, especially political independence.