Concepts and threats of nationalism from Ayatollah Khamenei's perspective

Nationalism, viewed as one of the most influential ideologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has been reviewed and evaluated by various thinkers, and the extreme tendency of this ideology has also been criticized by the international community and scholars. Meanwhile, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution has pointed out in his statements and messages about this ethnic and patriotic orientation in Islamic societies, which, in large part, have been pathologies and strategies that have emerged from extreme nationalism damage. Therefore, the present article tries to answer this question by using the method of thematic analysis and documentary studies; what is the meaning of nationalism from the point of view of Ayatollah Khamenei, and what are the threats of extremist nationalism to the Islamic world? The findings of the paper show that the typology of nationalism in Ayatollah Khamenei's intellectual system consists of two parts of positive and negative nationalism: the extreme aspects of this ideology emphasize ethnic, linguistic, blood, and so on. Of religious feelings and spirituality. Some of the threats of nationalism to the Islamic world are: the removal of nations from each other, the intensification of ethnic and sectarian differences in the Islamic world, the weakening of the strength of the power structure of the Islamic countries, the elimination of Islamic and religious identity, the weakening of spirituality in Islamic societies, etc. The ignorance of Islamic rulers towards them can put the Islamic world in a state of dilemmas.the removal of nations from each other, the intensification of ethnic and sectarian differences in the Islamic world, the weakening of the strength of the power structure of the Islamic countries, the elimination of Islamic and religious identity, the weakening of spirituality in Islamic societies, etc. The ignorance of Islamic rulers towards them can put the Islamic world in a state of dilemmas.