![]() Needed to implement them comes an emphasis on social justice common to the region. ![]() Movement in the context of the evolution of other Islamist movements and their mutual influences.įourthly, from European distributive notions of justice and the power structures A third and related theme is the place of the Iranian Islamist Is ultimately influenced by Western ideologies and methods. With Turkey and Egypt, and it is argued that Khomeini used Islam as Nasser used Arab socialism to mobilize the xpeople and secure for the state a basis in popular support, a process that Rise of the modern state in the region, with the ideological, institutional and social problems that this posed. Secondly, the work considers Iranian Islamism within the wider framework of Middle Eastern politics and the ![]() Firstly, Khomeini is discussed in the context of the influence on his ideas of Greek thoughtĬoming largely from Plato and Plotinus through the Islamic thinkers, al-Farabi, Ibn cArabi and Mulla Sadra, andĮven directly. Vision, and the influences of both Islamic and Western ideas upon him and his following in the creation of an Islamic state. The purpose of this work is to show the complex intellectual background to Khomeini’s Khomeini’s success in achieving his objectives was in many ways a chapter in aĬontinual struggle to establish new alternatives to the secular westernised state. Just as popular mobilization can overthrow a powerful regime, so in a battle over land and resources, the very notion of conviction,Ĭan challenge the superpower itself. Poverty and neglect have a willingness to sacrifice their lives as their only means of protest against Western protected might. The victory in World War I, are open to challenge, a message implicit in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Structures of authority which favour its domination, and the related economic system which developed in the Middle East following ![]() The events of September 11th, tragic as they are, have reminded the West that the Of modern technology, organization, propaganda and organization. Islamist challengers to the West since Khomeini emphasized self-assertion against over-whelming might, as well as the use Yet in 1979 the popular Islamist movement he led overthrewĪn American backed regime held in place by a powerful army and security organization. The West derived from a hermetically sealed religious tradition. From the time of the Iranian Revolution to the present, theĪyatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has been perceived by most people in the West as a dogmatic cleric with rigid views on Islam and ![]()
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