Terrorism from the perspective of Radical Islamic Fundamentalists and Shiite political Jurisprudence: Looking at Martyrdom Operations

With the outbreak of the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, radical changes occurred in the area of international relations and terrorism has become a global concern. The event that was organized by al-Qaeda has linked terrorism with religion, especially Islam, and radical Islamic fundamentalist promote religious terrorists with their views and actions. In this regard, the most important intellectual figure was Sayed Qutb who had a direct impact on the performance and perspectives of al-Qaeda. This led to introducing Islam Doctrine by the West and its head America with a misunderstanding to promote religious terrorism. Shia was also charged with promoting the teachings of religious terrorism as one of the branches of Islam. In this article, in addition to reviewing the doctrines and views of radical Islamists and al-Qaeda organization that promotes the formation of negative attitude of the West towards Islam, the Shiite political jurisprudence in relation to religious terrorism was examined. Therefore, the main concern of this paper is “what is the Shiite political jurisprudence perspective towards religious terrorism?” And “does the Doctrine of Shia political jurisprudence confirm the principles of religious terrorism?” The research hypothesis is that in the Doctrine of Shiite political jurisprudence, there are principles that reject religious terrorism and declare it illegal. Also, in contemporary era, we are witnessing the expansion of Muslims’ martyrdom operations to which the study of Shiite political jurisprudence is critical because Western perspectives see this as suicide and terrorism.