نشریه پژوهش های انقلاب اسلامی
پیاپی 7 (زمستان 1392)

Imam Khomeini (PBUH) is among the researchers, jurisprudents, theologians and scholars who have taken a methodic approach to research in different arenas. Since politics with human as its subject matter considers all aspects of his guidance, Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) works have plural methods. Methodologically speaking, Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) political thought is of multiple aspects and based on all epistemological resources and tools he takes into accounts. Therefore the main inquiry of this article is to explain Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) in his political thought. Studying his works, we can figure out that philosophical, theological and polemical arguments, jurisprudential deduction as well as ethical, interpretive and historical methods are so important that there is no way to have a proper understanding of Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) political thought but through learning these methods and how they are applied.

Welayate Faqihi is among the theories proposed by Shiite scholars about the political status of Shiite community during the age of occultation. Although this theory has first appeared in jurisprudential discussion, its theological foundations have been concurrently brought up and explained in those discussions. In the continuation of these discussions, a question is posed that whether the issue of welayate faqih is a jurisprudential issue or a theological one. This article assumes that it is both jurisprudential and theological and that they are interrelated. However, this issue is explained with a theological approach.

Remarkable influence of welayat-e Faqih and its novelty as well as innovative ideas by scholars on one hand and intellectual as well as cultural attacks by aliens to question, doubt and shaken its foundations on the other hand, have created some questions in this field that requires more clarification and stronger innovation. Among these questions is the theory of "incompatibility of welayat-e faqih and democracy". This article demonstrates that welayat-e faqih is not incompatible with democracy and it is even one of the best democracies of its kind and defends rational and legal freedoms.

In contemporary history of Iran two kinds of struggle have been commonplace; political-parliamentary struggle and armed struggle. However, both of them have been fruitless for a couple of reasons. Having created a novel method for struggle in 70s, Imam Khomeini (PBUH) could put an end to the kingdom of arrogant shahs. Therefore the current study tries to study Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) method for struggle with Pahlavid arrogant dynasty in the framework of soft power adopting religious teachings. In line with this, first cultural-religious elements creating soft power will be discussed and then having studied Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) measures to recreate soft power adopting religious-confessional paradigms, we will cover Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) strategies for struggle in his campaign against Pahlavi regime.

Fadaian-e Eslam can be considered as one of the first groups formed based on religious and Islamic causes in Iran against Pahlavi regime. A number of factors influenced stances by this group including domestic despotism, extensive impact of west as well as religious beliefs. Therefore, as a religious preacher and leader of this group, Navvab Safavi tried to assassinate some domestic figures inspired by Islamic teachings and with the support of some clerics. Analyzing historical data, this research tries to discover the function of religion in Navvab Safavi's thoughts and deeds. Evidences in this research indicate that religion has played an unparalleled role in Navvab Safavi's thoughts and deeds.

This article tries to answer this question: with respect to Islamic Republic of Iran's impact on Iraq and the importance of new Iraq for Iran's strategic environment, what elements do Iran's sources of soft power have? Findings of this article indicate that issues such as Iran's stances following Iraq's occupation, collapse of anti- Iranian regime, Shiite's empowerment in political arenas, active Shiite parties in Iraq, holding demonstrations of al- Qods day, contents of Iraq's new constitution and Iran's philanthropic contributions to rebuild war torn Iraq are among the sources of Iran's soft power in new Iraq.

From a historical and sociological viewpoint it can be stated that in every society two groups have been the source of historical developments in different eras: famous figures (elites) and ordinary people (public masses); such that any historical phenomenon is a consequence of those two group's performance and how they interact. However, since elites are referred to as authorities and since followers are influenced by pioneers, their performance and mindset in conception and formation of historical and political processes will be an important issue to be taken into account; because their performance can make the society and even history a blissful one. They may also cause the society or history to corrupt and decompose. Therefore the primary element in this regard is elites. Categorizing models of elite's and political figure's social and political behavior with regard to their attitudes, beliefs, mentality and motives (based on religious literature) is the subject of this research.

This article tries to figure out how homogenous are products by American media with the orientations of US foreign policy about Iran. The primary hypothesis of this research is that US foreign policy about Iran seriously influences the image of Iran depicted in products by American Media which we try to prove. To study this issue in this article, three videos have been examined and their contents in common with US foreign policy about Iranophobia have been studied.

The primary question of this article is how Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) discourse has influenced recent developments in Islamic countries known as "Islamic awakening". The hypothesis of this research is that, with original Islamic as its base, Imam Khomeini's (PBUH) discourse has prepared the ground with intellectual inspirations and institutionalization of defense mentality as well as confronting domestic and foreign despotism among Muslim and Arab nations to resonate the screams of "Islamic awakening" in the region.

Since one of the primary tasks of a government is crystallized in the economic arena and since economic issues are closely related with citizen's welfare, living and satisfaction, lack of which threatens the popularity of system, the current article tries to investigate and identify domestic strengths and weaknesses as well as foreign opportunities and threats in economic issues related with the destiny of Islamic republic of Iran during initial years of fourth decade after revolution and hand the findings to officials, politicians, decision makers, high ranking economic managers and scientific society of the country.