Shariʿa and the Social Justice
Ahmad
Vaezi
Professor in Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology/ Baqer al-Uloom University, Qom, Iran.
author
text
article
2021
eng
In the contemporary era, the social justice has been focus of special attention, and explained and interpreted variously in the form of the theories of justice. In the climate of the Islamic thought, the belief in the perfection of Shariʿa and the capacity of the Islamic teachings for optimal management of the human societies has brought about a belief in self-sufficiency of Shariʿa and no need to any attempt for some movements such as identity neo-Salafism. In the present article, while explaining the view of identity neo-Salafism regarding the status of Shariʿa in establishing justice with a focus on Sayyid Quṭb's thought, we attempt to explore various aspects of the discussion on the relationship between Shariʿa and social justice. In this way, we try to present a vivid picture of the function of jurisprudence and Shariʿa in the sphere of establishing social justice as defined by Islam.
Journal of Islamic Political Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy
2676-2943
3
v.
5
no.
2021
7
37
https://jips.isca.ac.ir/article_72281_b9276932591e9d37a187f102c81158c4.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jips.2021.72281
The Features of Elections in the Religious Democratic System
Sayyid Sajjad
Izadhi
Professor in Research Center of Islamic Culture and Thought, Qom
author
text
article
2021
eng
Elections as one of the most widespread spheres of political participation are among the methods or tools offered for democratic administration of the society. Although the origin of "elections" is modernity and the west, this does not mean that we cannot suggest a distinctive reading of it appropriate for other local cultures. This study – in line with a belief in possibility of a distinct reading of elections in Islamic regime – has stressed on the distinction between the elections in Islamic regime and what is known as elections in western systems. This is because the "elections" used in Islamic system is a local and inferential reading offered by jurists, is based on the accepted jurisprudential tenets and norms, and enjoys religious ends and functions. Despite its general similarity in formal and structural features with other elections and enjoying their basic functions, it is reread, revised, and reconstructed in a way consistent with the tenets, ends and functions of the Islamic regime.
Journal of Islamic Political Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy
2676-2943
3
v.
5
no.
2021
38
59
https://jips.isca.ac.ir/article_72286_ba3b875f328149b7fc573e10f68ac69d.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jips.2021.72286
Sayyid Qutb, Islamic Jihad and Extremism
Mansour
Mir Ahmadi
Professor of Political Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
author
text
article
2021
eng
The present article, against the claim that Sayyid Qutb's supported theoretical and spiritual for Islamic extremism by proposing the concept of jihad, believes that by reading Sayyid Qutb's texts on his political and intellectual environment, his time shows the inaccuracy of this claim. Reading his texts for this article shows the conceptual development of defensive jihad in the political thought of Sayyid Qutb. With the transition of contemporary Islamism from a reformist to a revolutionary approach, he removed the concept of jihad from defensive jihad in its narrow sense and used it in its broadest sense. According to the author's view, the conceptual development of defensive jihad has not led to an aggressive jihad based on the idea of takfir, so he cannot be considered the intellectual and spiritual father of Islamic extremism. This article argues for this claim using an intentional hermeneutical method.
Journal of Islamic Political Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy
2676-2943
3
v.
5
no.
2021
60
82
https://jips.isca.ac.ir/article_72284_160c22c3a01c23417cf76dc0b9b62a90.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jips.2021.72284
Contraction and Expansion the powers of the agents of the Islamic system based on the theory of Velayat-e-Faqih
Seyed Kazem
Seyed Bagheri
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Islamic culture and thought research institute, Qom, Iran
author
text
article
2021
eng
The Contraction and Expansion of the powers of the agents of the Islamic system is one of the most challengeable discussions in four decades after the constitution of the Islamic Republic. It is essential to be observed in the various arena, and particularly it would be variant in perceptions of the Velayat-e Faqih theory. The purpose of this writing is to study of limits of agents’ s contraction and expansion based on the perception of the Velayat-e Faqih, so the basic question is going to proceed to the contraction and expansion of Islamic Republic agents based on government theories in the perception of on the Velayat-e Faqih in various field, and to respond, remarkably according to the opinion of on the Velayat-e Faqih theories, knowing as elected or appointed, oversight role or attorneyship jurisprudent, bring about a change in agents contraction and expansion, so in the Velayat-e Faqih, agents have an outspread choice according to divine limits, justice, and expediency of Islamic republic and the public, however through the Velayat-e Faqih theories, the contraction and expansion, depending on the volume of powers which people grant them to jurisprudent and agents that is limited.
Journal of Islamic Political Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy
2676-2943
3
v.
5
no.
2021
83
99
https://jips.isca.ac.ir/article_72282_53af8258d923ae1c43f182cc9521294e.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jips.2021.72282
The characteristics of the government in the philosophical system of Mulla Sadra
Murteza
Yusefi-Rad
Assistant Professor in Department of Political Philosophy; Academy of Political Sciences; Research Center of Islamic Sciences and Culture, Qom, Iran
author
text
article
2021
eng
In political communities, the states have two basic functions: (a) establishing stable and permanent order and (b) achieving their goals. The former is the philosophy for the existence of all states, but the latter pertains to the goals defined for them by the political schools and philosophies. These goals range from removing the social sufferings, disadvantages, and discriminations to establishing social justice, observing the mutual rights in a society and fulfilling individual beneficial needs as well as public benefits and achieving felicity. Now, what are the functions of the state in Mulla Sadra's philosophical system? Considering Mulla Sadra's systemic attitude towards the man (descending-ascending to transcendence attitude) and towards the state, it is claimed that the state's functions in Mulla Sadra's political philosophy is realized when the members of the society pass through contrasting stage of individual benefits in the animal orders and the lower ranks towards rational orders and to the stage of the man's flowering and his existential promotion to the state of unity with God. In this article, the researcher uses content analysis method to prove this claim through an investigation of Mulla Sadra's philosophical system and his political texts. The achievement of this study is to show how the demands of a divine philosophical system is distinguished in the functions of one state with another state, and how we can evaluate and review the function of the Islamic Republic of Iran with an awareness of the function of Mulla Sadra's favorite state.
Journal of Islamic Political Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy
2676-2943
3
v.
5
no.
2021
100
120
https://jips.isca.ac.ir/article_72283_26745d2eda73f649299d9bdc402a41ba.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jips.2021.72283
Transcendental Politics: the Meeting Point of Parrhesia and the Ideal of Freedom
Vali Mohammad
AhmadVand
PhD of Political Sciences; Shahid Beheshti University
author
Bahram
Dalir
Assistant Professor in Research Center of Islamic Culture and Thought
author
text
article
2021
eng
The present article presupposes that the philosopher does not restrict himself just to knowing things as they are; rather, rising to do things as they must [be done] is considered the actual continuation of his thought, and that a philosopher is not just aware of the truth, but he stays at it. The article poses the following questions: "what is Mullah Sadra's position as to the truth?" "Is our philosopher – as Foucault expresses under the features of Parrhesia – ready to have the same treatment with truth as Socrates did?" This study deals with Mullah Sadra's Parrhesia-like actual aspects in confronting with the owners of power and the factors defacing social wisdom. Thus, the study of Mullah Sadra's political-social mission is determined in two lines. First, we deal with Mullah Sadra's Parrhesian mission. Parrhesia means truthfulness without adulation, freedom of speech, frankness and explicit veracity in facing with the king's will or facing the irrational requests of the majority. In the second line, we deal with Mullah Sadra's attempt to enumerate factors defacing the truth in a way that leads to ruin of the social wisdom, an action that can result – by removing the layers of ignorance – in freedom of human's reason from the dominance of factors defacing it. The removal of layers of ignorance has been borrowed from the literature of ideal of freedom in Frankfort school. The present article uses the discourse method for maximal coverage of the meanings.
Journal of Islamic Political Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy
2676-2943
3
v.
5
no.
2021
121
143
https://jips.isca.ac.ir/article_72285_20bbe143870e51a7ce709f20131803e7.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jips.2021.72285