Leadership in Twelver Imami Shi'ism : Mortaza Motahhari's Ideas on the Imamate and the Role of Religious Scholars
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Heated arguments have been waged concerning the meaning of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and in particular, concerning the issue of the leadership of the new regime. For instance, religious scholars' direct political rule has been regarded as a theocracy or as an anachronism by Western researchers. In this paper, starting with the role of Imams (spiritual leaders in the Shi'ite community), an attempt to clarify the significance of the leadership of the ´olama will be made based on the works of one influential Iranian philosopher, Mortaza Motahhari (1920-79), who was involved in the revolution as a leading ideologue. Motahhari, while criticizing Western socio-political institutions, discusses the significance of leadership in the Shi'ite community and other issues such as whether the ´olama truly have the legal right to direct political rule in the absence of the Hidden Imam, what constitutes Islamic democracy, and so on. In the process, we will see that his argument necessarily deals with the ethical high-mindedness of the religious scholars as a pre-condition for genuine leaders of the community.
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