فصلنامه مطالعات انقلاب اسلامی
پیاپی 21 (تابستان 1389)

The impact of development process on cultural identity is a subject in the development of Islamic Republic of Iran which requires further study. Identity as a factor controlling the development guarantees the cultural stability and can pave the way for development.Mentioning the development process in Islamic republic of Iran and how development programs are influenced by external models, the author argues that adoption of external models heterogeneous with cultural necessities of Iranian society has led to the formation of unresolved identity challenges

The political achievement of the Islamic Revolution was putting an end to the domination of the United States and thereby achieving political independence. The main purpose of this paper is to reread this experience from the perspective of the realization of the objectives of the Islamic Revolution in the Islamic world and international system. This experience seems to be not only the best strategy to resist against the United States’domination in world today but also the only way which can keep Islamic Republic of Iran away from the domination of the United States once more. Along with an analysis of domination, the paper also proposes strategies for resisting against domination.

Anti-tobacco movement analyses have always accentuated its economic aspects and introduce religious aspects as means of achieving economic interests. Based on this, the author has studied the history and background of this movement and has illuminated and substantiated the role of “niaba a’mmah“in different phases of this movement from the beginning to its culmination as well as its consequences. He points out that obeying Mirzaye Shirazi’s order, as Imam Zaman (A)’s nayib had the main role and that themovement was primarily religious in nature. However, it had particular economic and social consequences as well.

Among three opposition groups, including Islamist, leftists and nationalists, at the second Pahlavi’s era, it was just the Islamists that successfully took the leadership by taking advantage of social assets and established their desired political system. Using official and unofficial relation networks, such as mosques, religious gatherings and schools as social assets as well as the employment of strong beliefs and values, such as Entedar, as powerful cooperational norms, Islamists could gain people’s political trust and withorganizing public protests, they could practically lead the revolution and finally establish their desired political system namely the Islamic republic of Iran.

Based on the commitment to the society, awareness and youth, the student movement has always been the source of many intellectual and political changes in contemporary societies. This movement somehow distanced from its thinking traditions and its old causes after the Islamic revolution while it was ideologically unified prior to the revolution. Critical and democratic orientations gradually found their way in this movement and itexperienced a kind of plurality within itself. This paper refers to student movement's history and analyzes its place after the revolution and concentrates on pathology of the movement in Iran.

The motive of the participants in the revolutionary activities in the years 1356-57 (1977-78) as well as their present satisfaction with the occurrence of the revolution was studied in a research which resulted in the present paper. The research adopted a surveying method with 500 samples from individuals of more than 45 years of age who had been selected by a quota method.The results of the research showed that 42% of the participants in the revolution had the motive of safeguarding the Islamic values, 20% were not satisfied with the Shah’s regime and 7.3% sought better economic conditions. Some 38% of the respondents believed that political objectives of the revolution have been materialized more than other objectives while 62% were much satisfied with the occurrence of the revolution and satisfaction of 20% of them was at a medium level. The relation between the religiousness and achievement of the goals of the revolution from the point of view of the espondents as well as their satisfaction with the occurrence of therevolution were also confirmed.

One of the most controversial theories introduced by Muslim intellectuals is the theory of Velayat-e-Faghih. It has been set in the works of the Shiite scholars, however, there are some theories put forth by Muslim theologists and philosophers which are rooted in those ideas. Comparing the Shiite jurisprudent's ideas about the government and the Muslim community's management in the absence of the twelfth Imam with Farabi's political philosophy, this study intends to indicate that Farabi's theory has a lot in common with the theory of the primacy of the top spiritual leader and through this, it comes to an important conclusion that not only does the primacy of the top spiritual leader have the narrative and acceptable bases but it is also conceived of having both philosophical andlogical bases.