THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE SHIITE POLITICAL FIGH FROM THE MASHROOTE MOVEMENT TO THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION

From the MashrootÅ movement onward, a new discourse in the Shiite political Fiqh took over which implied that the responsibilities for Faqihs to rule over the Islamic society is not suspended during the Period of Absence. As a result, the discourse of "the suspension of ruling during the Period of Absence" was discarded. This discursive change in the Shiite political Fiqh was the result of the formation of a new form of Ijtihad in the Shiite political Fiqh, which dominated the Shiite scientific atomsphere. The extension of researches within the framework of Ilm Al-Qsul, the impact of the school of thought of Mullah Sadra, the improvement in the social status of Faqihs, and the inadequacy of despotic systems of ruling are the main causes of the formation of this new discourse.