After the Islamic revolution in Iran, revolutionary leaders had to compromise their ideology. The Iranian ship of state continues to drift in search of an equilibrium between revolutionary convictions and the demands of governance, between religion and state, and Islam and the West.
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Perhaps the most profound achievement of the 1979 revolution was the unification of religion and state, and the transfer of all power - theological and political - to the highest religious authority, the marja'-e taqlid (source of imitation), or, as the concept became known in revolutionary parlance, the velayat-e faqih (guardianship or vicegerency of the jurisconsult). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic camps, domestic rifts, foreign outlook, cultural onslaught, dialogue between civilizations, ideological creed, fascist interpretation, dissident clerics, revolutionary takeover, ruling clerics, revolutionary dogma, ideological purists, domestic trends, clerical regime, religious credentials, revolutionary creed, clerical rule, revolutionary rule, domestic rivalries, prominent clerics, ruling system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Radio Tehran, Jomhuri-ye Islami, Middle East, Supreme Leader, Tehran Times, Jahan-e Islam, Iran Times, Iran News, Soviet Union, President Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, Council of Guardians, New York, Kayhan International, Saudi Arabia, Central Asia, Echo of Iran, Council of Experts, Agence France Presse, Islamic Iran, Jame'eh-ye Ruhaniyyat-e Mobarez, Los Angeles Times, President Khatami, Revolutionary Guards, Tehran University New!
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Perhaps the most profound achievement of the 1979 revolution was the unification of religion and state, and the transfer of all power - theological and political - to the highest religious authority, the marja'-e taqlid (source of imitation), or, as the concept became known in revolutionary parlance, the velayat-e faqih (guardianship or vicegerency of the jurisconsult). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic camps, domestic rifts, foreign outlook, cultural onslaught, dialogue between civilizations, ideological creed, fascist interpretation, dissident clerics, revolutionary takeover, ruling clerics, revolutionary dogma, ideological purists, domestic trends, clerical regime, religious credentials, revolutionary creed, clerical rule, revolutionary rule, domestic rivalries, prominent clerics, ruling system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Radio Tehran, Jomhuri-ye Islami, Middle East, Supreme Leader, Tehran Times, Jahan-e Islam, Iran Times, Iran News, Soviet Union, President Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, Council of Guardians, New York, Kayhan International, Saudi Arabia, Central Asia, Echo of Iran, Council of Experts, Agence France Presse, Islamic Iran, Jame'eh-ye Ruhaniyyat-e Mobarez, Los Angeles Times, President Khatami, Revolutionary Guards, Tehran University New!
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- The Military Balance 1994-1995 by International Institute for Strategic Studies on 8 pages
- Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (1941-1980) by Imam Khomeini on 6 pages
- Islam & Revolution by Khomeini on 6 pages
- After Khomeini: The Iranian Second Republic by Anoushiravan Ehteshami on 5 pages
- The Iranian Revolution and the Muslim World (Westview Special Studies on the Middle East) by David Menashri on page 256, page 257, and Back Matter
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- Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power by David Menashri on page 44, and page 76
- Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic by Ray Takeyh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Islam in a Globalizing World by Thomas W. Simons Jr. in Back Matter
- After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy by Noah Feldman in Back Matter
- Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution by Nikki R. Keddie in Back Matter
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