Garineh Keshishyan Siraki
Volume 9, Issue 1 , March 2020, , Pages 199-233
Abstract
Islamic awakening is one of the phenomena of recent decades that has occurred in Islamic countries and has caused many changes in Muslim societies. This great change has been influenced ...
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Islamic awakening is one of the phenomena of recent decades that has occurred in Islamic countries and has caused many changes in Muslim societies. This great change has been influenced by strong and influential ideas. One of these influential ideas that caused many changes in the world; It is the thought and discourse of Imam Khomeini. With the leadership of an Islamic revolution and with the change of the oppressive government to the Islamic Republic, as well as the ten years of leadership of this fledgling republic, he was able to have many effects on the Islamic awakening in other parts of the world and among Muslims and even oppressed non-Muslims. In this article, Imam Khomeini's discourse was examined using Laclau and Moff's discourse theory and it was discussed how Imam criticized modernity and modern civilization, as well as highlighting Iranian Islamic civilization, emphasizing concepts such as independence, freedom and pure Muhammadan Islam; and also by marginalizing modern Western civilization, by criticizing modernity and Western instrumental rationality, and also by criticizing the concept of Western freedom, he has marginalized this civilization and is a model for Islamic and revolutionary awakening for other countries and nations, the oppressed depicted the world.
