POLITICAL QUARTERLY

POLITICAL QUARTERLY

IMAM KHOMEINI AND MODERNITY

Document Type : Research Paper

Author
Associate Professor; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
Abstract
Sign in New Civilizations West to Iran in recent decades has led to different approaches
between Iranian intellectuals. Among contemporary scholars have taken the position that
the novelty of his ideas is the foundation of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA)
is. Khomeini modernization of the (external) content, as opposed to the trappings of
modernity, Islam Vlma knows. But the content of what the West stands Westernization
acceptance Vanhtat community knows. This paper is an attempt at using content analysis
of documents Khomeini modernity are examined from various angles.
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  • Receive Date 22 July 2013
  • Revise Date 07 October 2014
  • Accept Date 20 November 2013