پژوهشنامه متین
پیاپی 38 (بهار 1387)

The knowledge of organ transplantation has led to a number of legal and ethical issues. One of these issues is the financial relationship between the donor and the receiver. The issue of transaction of body organs has received different reactions of the religious scholars. Given the lack of explicit legal text on the issue, it is necessary to pay attention to the jurisprudential and legal foundations of this transaction. In the light of the jurisprudential viewpoints of Imam Khomeini, the present article in the first place discusses the issue that organs of the body are one’s property. Then the mode of man’s relations with his organs are discussed and finally in the light of the correctness of transactions, the transaction of body organs is legal in special cases.

Interaction and confrontation between the institution of clergy and politics and confrontation of the Shia ulama with the government is one of the social and historical characteristics of the recent century. Tobacco Movement which reached its climax after the fatwa of Mirzai Shirazi dealt a serious blow on the British domination and created serious challenges for the Qajar dictatorial system. Various analyses have been given about nature and base of this movement by historians and analysts. Imam Khomeini on different occasions paid special attention to the Tobacco Movement, considering it a new chapter in the history of the struggles of the people of Iran. While referring to different viewpoints about that event, the present article is an attempt to elucidate Imam Khomeini’s viewpoints in this regard through relying on his writings and speeches.

The establishment of the Islamic government in Iran is among the most important experiences in the history Shia. The issue of prerogatives of the government has challenged the viewpoints of some of the Shia jurisprudents. Since great ulama and jurisprudents like Imam Khomeini are on both sides of these intellectual challenges, it has created new issues in the Shia political thought. The present article is an attempt to shed on light on this issue and the consequences of these theoretical debates on the Shia political thought.

The main thrust of this paper is to comparatively study is bases, principles nad main characteristics of the theories of religious democracy from the viewpoint of Imam Khomeini and liberal democracy from the viewpoint of their main founders as a competing theory of government in the contemporary world. This objective is followed in three stages: introducting the main characteristics of the theory of liberal democracy, introducing the main characteristics of religios democracy with refrernce to the viewpoints of Imam Khomeini, and finally, comparative study of the two political theories from different aspects to find out their similarities and differences.

Scientific research in every discipline or field requires acquaintance with the research methodology in that discipline or filed. Progress in every discipline requires reflection on the epistemology and methodology of that discipline. The present article is an attempt to review the issue of method and methodology and raise some questions about the methodology of historiography of the Islamic Revolution to encourage the scholars of this field.

The main thrust of the present article is to shed light on the concept of hermeneutics and the field of its activities. It is a new school in the Western thought, whose history goes back to the religious reformations and enlightenment eras. This school has developed in recent decades and has gained a special philosophical status on the side of epistemology, analytical philosophy and aesthetics.In the present study, the hermeneutical schools are discussed in three parts. In the second part of the article, Imam Khomeini’s interpretative viewpoints are discussed and besides comparing the viewpoints of Imam Khomeini with hermeneutics experts some of the viewpoints of the contemporary thinkers are also discussed.