A Review of the Political Thoughts of Sayyed Jamal al-din Asad Abadi and Imam Khomeini (may Allah be pleased with him)

Sayyed Jamal al-din Asad Abadi and Imam Khomeini (may Allah be pleased with them) two great Islamic thinkers, who made great efforts to unite the Islamic world and stood firmly against domestic autocracy and foreign colonialism. In order to accomplish this goal, they sought to reform and change the manner of governing in the Islamic world. However, historical findings report that in spite of Sayyed Jamal's great influence on thinkers and Islamic scholars who came after him, he was unable to reform the governance in Islamic world in his life time, but Imam Khomeini managed to topple the regime and establish the Islamic Republic of Iran. Using a library – analytical method, the present paper investigates some of the political thoughts of these two thinkers and takes a probing look at Sayyed Jamal's failure and Imam Khomeini's success in this regard. The findings indicate that the theoretical gap in the political system is among the main causes of the failure Sayyed Jamal's failure in reform movement.