پژوهشنامه متین
پیاپی 39 (تابستان 1387)

The Islamic Revolution of Iran has had several impacts on the regional and international levels. The analysts have enumerated at least four main impacts: palpable and outstanding impact, consolidation and acceleration of the pace of Islamic political trends, reviving political Islamic ideology and thought, and preparing the grounds for some of the governments to suppress the opposition Islamic movements.Among the regional countries, Lebanon is the most suitable place for acceptance of revolutionary ideas. Despite the existence of several tribes in the complicated Lebanese society, every tribe in order to expert its influence needs tribal essential power as well as the support of one foreign power. The Shia in Lebanon during the course of history had never enjoyed the said factors to exercise power in Lebanon. Despite the efforts of Imam Musa Sadr to provide the Shias with the instruments of power, such problems as civil war and his disappearance caused a shortcoming among the Shias in their efforts to gain power. These developments occurred simultaneous with the victory of the Islamic revolution, and this coincidence raised their hopes in the future. The present paper is an attempt to study the impacts of the Islamic Revolution on the provision of power factors for the Lebanese Shias as well as the obstacles that the Shias face in this regard.

Regarding the social-political status of women in contemporary Iran, one of the important discourses has been the traditional discourse. Having their roots in the social and religious traditions, this discourse has had a significant influence on the nature of approach to women in Iranian society. However on the eve of the Constitutional Revolution a new discourse influenced by modernism came to the fore which is called semi-modernism because it is not fully compatible with Western modernism. This was the dominant discourse during the Pahlavi era.On the threshold of the Islamic Revolution, a new discourse about women became dominant which is called the discourse of Islamic Revolution. Criticizing the traditional and semi-modern discourses this new discourse presented a new approach to women.The present article is an attempt to study the said discourses and their consequences in the political and social fields.

As a symbol of dynamic Shia jurisprudence Imam Khomeini who issued decrees on the basis of requirements of time and space has certain stances on women as well. If the text of his speeches and writing are analyzed out of context, the reader may misunderstand him. Imam Khomeini’s viewpoints have undergone change depending on the prevailing conditions in the society. These changes can be studied in four certain historical stages. During the first two stages which is the peak of Pahlavi’s power, the Imam opposed political participation of women in political and social affairs due to the problems such participation would created for the women and during the second two stages which coincided with the revolutionary movement and the first decade of the revolution, Imam encouraged women’s participation in the social-political affairs. The present article is an attempt to study the reasons for this change.

The present paper is an attempt to comparatively study the issue of “soul” from the viewpoints of Imam Khomeini and Gazzali as an anthropological foundation of the their political thoughts. The hypothesis of the present study is: While the political thought of Gazzali is analyzable within the traditional paradigm, the indices of Imam Khomeini’s political thought go beyond the traditional paradigm.

Imam Khomeini as a jurisprudent who studied and taught jurisprudence assumed the leadership of a system which was based on jurisprudence. Hence his viewpoints are helpful in solving some of the problems of this field.According to Imam Khomeini one of the important issues in today’s world is the role of time and space in individual inference and in decision-making. According to Imam Khomeini, time and space leave their impacts on the subject of decrees, that is, a subject whose decree has been given in the past, may have another decree within the framework of relations dominating politics as well as social and economic affairs of a society. The present particle is an attempt to analyze this approach.

The most important aspect of every revolution is its ideological aspect which is significant in studying its transnational impacts. This aspect of the Islamic Revolution left an impact on the adjacent regions – which enjoy many regional, geographical, cultural and historical similarities. Although these impacts were not much noticed due to the domination of former Soviet Union during the first decade of the revolution, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and formation of newly independent republics, the Islamic Republic of Iran tried to expand its influence on the basis of three connections, i.e., ethnicity, language and common historical-cultural background).