Ph.D. in the Islamic Revolution, A Member of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Imam Khomeini, in the arena of the Pahlavi regime, has always faced an issue of armed struggle as a fateful challenge. The maximum reliance on the Pahlavi regime to the element of the armed suppression of political opponents and the launch of bloody killings in Kouran Movement, with a spectrum of political fighters in the application of an armed struggle, which occasionally entered the field of religious basis and sometimes with the backing of religious foundations. In these conditions, the leadership of the movement has always been exposed to the question of the nature of the armed struggle.
Representation of the Imam Sira around the armed struggles depends on some fundamental questions, including whether Imam agreed with armed movements? If he was opposed, why did he not rule out the likelihood of 'declaration of jihad' in their formal political literature, but also against it? In the present article, while describing the positions and political signs of Imam Khomeini during the struggle, his approach surrounding the 'declaration of armed jihad' as one of the jurisprudential capacities to advance political struggles, is reviewed and with descriptive analytical approach, it will be proven that Imam in the same time Avoiding the approval of armed struggles and refraining from pragmatic approaches and ideas has always addressed the 'declaration of jihad' as a political task to disturb enemy expectations
Moghaddami Shahidani, S. (2022). Using the Political Capacity of "Declaring Armed Jihad" in Imam Khomeini's Campaign. State Studies of Contemporary Iran, 7(4), 107-122.
MLA
Sohrab Moghaddami Shahidani. "Using the Political Capacity of "Declaring Armed Jihad" in Imam Khomeini's Campaign". State Studies of Contemporary Iran, 7, 4, 2022, 107-122.
HARVARD
Moghaddami Shahidani, S. (2022). 'Using the Political Capacity of "Declaring Armed Jihad" in Imam Khomeini's Campaign', State Studies of Contemporary Iran, 7(4), pp. 107-122.
VANCOUVER
Moghaddami Shahidani, S. Using the Political Capacity of "Declaring Armed Jihad" in Imam Khomeini's Campaign. State Studies of Contemporary Iran, 2022; 7(4): 107-122.
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