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- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Session 1: The Most Important Questions in the Realm of Islamic Policy
- Introduction
- Islam and Political Theorizing
- Islamic Political Theory being “founded” by Islam
- The Nature and Essentials of Islamic Government
- The form of Islamic government and the scope of prerogatives and duties
- The role of people in Islamic government and some other questions
- Methodology of discussing Islamic political theory
- Session 2: Importance and Exigency of Discussing Islamic Political Theory
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- How the East and the West confront the Islamic Revolution
- The youth and the long-term cultural plot
- The triple axis of the cultural plot
- 1. Promotion of the Notion of Separation of Religion and Politics
- 2. Denial of Wilayah al-Faqih
- 3. Concern about the form of Wilayah al-Faqih
- Our responsibility vis-à-vis the triple axis of the enemy’s plot
- The need to choose suitable methods to foil the enemy’s plot
- The Definition and Jurisdiction of Religion
- The need to know religion through its sources
- Session 3: Station of Politics in Religion (Part 1)
- Session 4: Station of Politics in Religion (Part 2)
- Separation of religion and politics an extra-religious outlook
- Close-knit connection between this world and the hereafter
- Ideological baptism of actions in this world
- Radiant capability of intellect in discerning value of actions
- Jurisdiction of Religion
- Relationship between Religion and Government
- Universality of Religion
- Session 5: Freedom in Islam (Part 1)
- Private realms of Knowledge and Religion
- Skepticism on alleged contradiction between religious rule and freedom
- Propagating the above skepticism through a religious tune
- Replying to the above skepticism
- Reason behind the uniqueness of the Qur’anic approach
- Propagating the skepticism through an extra-religious approach
- Hume’s skepticism and the first reply to the above skepticism
- Second reply—absoluteness and limitlessness of freedom
- Skepticism on alleged contradiction between government authority and man’s divine vicegerency (khilafah)
- Reply to the above skepticism
- Session 6: Freedom in Islam (Part 2)
- Session 7: Freedom, Its Limits and Boundaries
- Islamic political theory and skepticism on alleged restriction of freedom
- Different outlook on concept of freedom
- Freedom as not absolute and rejection of freedom’s predominance over religion
- Need to observe the values and sanctities of every society
- Illegitimate motives in exercising freedom
- Limits of freedom of expression
- Need to explain concept and manifestation of terms
- Session 8: An Elucidation of the Structure and Form of Government
- Status of elemental and evidential definition
- Islam and theory of separation of powers
- Skepticism on alleged impotence of Islam in social administration
- Types of laws and necessity of enacting variable laws
- Meaning of Islamic nature of laws
- Process of legislation in the Islamic government
- Legal status delegated in the Islamic government
- Session 9: An Examination of the Status of Laws in the Religious System
- Principles of Islamic political theory
- Need to acknowledge essentials of religion
- Islam’s fixed principles and precepts
- Fixed essential laws and decisive concepts of the Qur’an
- Removing skepticism on the existence of contradictory interpretations of Islam
- Questioning Islam’s capability of meeting all human needs
- Session 10: Law and the Difference in Outlook and Origin
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- Exigency of discussing law at the present stage
- Two contradictory views determining domain of laws
- Status of law in democratic systems
- Basis of credibility of human rights
- Real, intrinsic laws and status of man’s freewill
- Legislative and divine laws that guarantee man’s felicity and perfection
- Difference between legal and moral laws
- Difference between Islamic and liberal approach
- Session 11: Criterion of Credibility of Law
- Exigency of delving into major political issues
- Scope and criterion of credibility of law
- Objection to the first view
- Superiority of Islamic laws
- Inapplicability of the second view
- Defects of the third view and extent of needs according to Islam
- The Islamic Revolution and superior station of spiritual interests
- Session 12: The Different Views of Islam and the West on Values
- The best law according to Islam and the danger of eclecticism
- Intellectual eclecticism in realm of religious thought
- Concept of religious pluralism
- Magnificence of servitude to God and its conflict with absolute freedom
- The West and elimination of alleged contradiction between science and religion
- Station of people’s will in liberalism and Islam
- Democracy and legislative authority in Islam and the West
- An admonition to the youth
- Session 13: Fundamental Difference in the Approach to Law between Islam and the West
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- Relationship between law and individual freedom
- Law in the humanist and liberal approach
- The onslaught of Western culture and its confrontation with Islamic culture
- The clergy and structural framework of Islamic culture
- Nature of law and its special function in Islam and liberalism
- Relativity of legitimate freedom
- Tension between Islam and liberalism
- Legislation in Islam and democracy
- The binding law in the Islamic government
- Session 14: The West’s Materialistic Approach to Law
- A review of the previous discussions
- Natural law school
- Scope of human rights in the West
- Emergence of contradictions on scope of freedom
- Scope of freedom in human rights
- Problems of categorizing freedom in the West
- Islamic law’s concern for spiritual and material interests
- Preeminence of spiritual and religious interests over material interests
- Difference between conditions and scope of freedom in Islam and liberalism
- Session 15: The Islamic Government, Challenges and Cultural Plots
- A review of the previous discussions
- The clergy and its crucial duty of guidance
- Promotion of destructive Western freedom in the national press
- “Islamic Protestantism” as a conspiracy against Islam
- Real meaning of natural right
- Traditional interpretation as the only authentic interpretation of Islam
- Legitimate freedom
- Religion and law as restrainers of freedom
- Necessity of restraining freedom
- Session 16: Difference between Divine and Atheistic Culture in the Realm of Law and Freedom
- Role of choice, awareness and observance of law in attaining the goal
- Difference between moral and legal laws
- Divine and atheistic cultures and their different perspectives on law
- Three pillars of Western culture
- Fundamental conflict between Western and Islamic culture
- Difference in approach between Islam and the West on determining scope of freedom
- Session 17: Relationship between Religious Legislative Lordship (rububiyyat-e tashri‘i), and Sovereignty and Legislation
- Session 18: Requisites of Legislation and Its Station in Islam
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- Legislator’s qualifications as exclusive to God
- Objection on the necessity of legal authorities’ plurality
- Reply to the first objection
- Second objection: absence of God’s will in legislation
- Reply to the second objection
- Man’s mastery over his destiny
- Lack of contradiction between mastery of man and sovereignty of God
- Session 19: Distinctive Feature of Islam in the Realm of Politics and Government
- Session 20: A New Perspective on the Station of Law and Government
- Session 21: Islam and Democracy (Part 1)
- Session 22: Islam and Democracy (Part 2)
- Session 23: An Examination of the Essence of Unity in Humanity and the Citizenship of Citizens
- Volume2
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- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Session 24: Grand Strategies in the Realm of Governance and Implementation (Part 1)
- The exigency of government
- Different approaches on objectives of executive power
- Aim of prophets (‘a) in establishing government
- Impact of social challenges on conduct of liberal system
- Reason behind individuals’ inclination towards liberalism
- A perspective on the structure of Islamic government and state
- The government must be accepted by the people
- Session 25:Grand Strategies in the Realm of Governance and Implementation (Part 2)
- Government as perpetually needed by human society
- Need for government according to Islam and the Qur’an
- The exigency and source of power
- Administrators must be God-wary and morally sound
- An examination of the legitimacy of government in political philosophy
- Difference between Islamic and liberal perspectives on legitimacy
- Session 26: Special Functions of State and Islamic Perspective on Public Participation
- Exclusive functions of state
- Dual structure of functions of state
- Need for organizations dealing with low-income strata of society
- The Islamic paving of ground for public participation
- Factors undermining public participation
- Status of civil society in Islam
- New ways of opposing Islamic criteria for selection
- Need to preserve Islamic values and principles and counter enemy plots
- Session 27: A Perspective on the Distinctive Structure of the Islamic State
- Fundamental difference between government in Islamic and secular systems
- Presentation of a secular state model by those enamored by Western culture
- State’s mission to preserve and promote Islamic mottos
- Methods employed by the state to fulfill its responsibilities
- Model of totalitarian and liberal states
- Islam’s idealistic and realistic perspective on state
- Defects of a state’s centralized system
- Session 28: Observance of Values and Legitimate Freedom in an Islamic State
- Session 29: The Political Hierarchy in the Islamic State
- Specific duties of an Islamic government
- Qualifications of Islamic state officials
- Necessity of determining origin of statesmen’s qualifications
- Rejecting the value-laden approach of Kant in the realm of behavior
- Islam’s non-judgmental approach in value-giving and assigning duties
- Worship has different degrees of value
- Categorized models of Islamic government
- Rational proof of the wilayah al-faqih system
- Session 30: The Connection between the Absolute Guardianship of the Jurist and the Islamic Government Establishment
- Balance between prerogatives and duties in the Islamic state
- Connection between absolute guardianship (wilayat-e mutlaq) and government prerogatives
- People’s skepticism on absolute guardianship
- Investigating the structure of Islamic government
- Precedence of the notion of “state within a state” in Islam
- Imam Khomeini’s presentation of “absolute guardianship of the jurist”
- Description of wilayat al-faqih in the maqbulah of ‘Umar ibn Hanzalah’
- Islam’s view on separation of powers
- Grounds for overlapping of functions
- Session 31: An Examination and Criticism of the Theory of Separation of Powers
- Historical trend leading to the theory of separation of powers
- Reasons behind the separation of powers
- The impossibility of totally separating and delineating the powers
- Need for an institution that coordinates and supervises the three powers
- Wilayah al-faqih as the unifying axis of society and the political system
- Session 32: The Exigency of Elucidating the Ideological Position of the Islamic System
- Different levels of understanding the Islamic government
- A review of the characteristics of law and its necessity
- Another review of the qualities of the implementers of Islamic laws
- Theoretical connection of Islamic government with ideological principles and foundations
- Logical and rational basis of Islamic government’s linear degrees
- Presenting some questions regarding Islamic government
- Session 33: Islam and Different Forms of Government
- Skepticism on Islam’s alleged lack of government planning and program
- Refuting the abovementioned skepticism and stating the Islamic viewpoint on the form of government
- The impossibility of presenting a fixed government structure
- Skepticism on alleged temporal and worldly nature of government and obsoleteness of Islamic laws
- Refutation of the above and the connection between Islam’s immutable and alterable laws
- Divine laws’ jurisdiction encompasses all spheres of human activities
- Session 34: The Position of Islamic Laws and Our System’s Superiority over Other Systems
- Connection of the immutable laws of Islam with government structure and alterable laws
- Primary and secondary laws and the secondary laws’ alleged conflict with Islam
- Shortcomings of the democratic systems
- Exigency of the powers’ coordinating agency
- The coordination of powers in the wilayah al-faqih system
- The wilayah al-faqih system’s superiority over other systems
- Session 35: The Connection between Freedom, State and Laws
- The alleged incompatibility of an appointed ruler with freedom and democracy
- Examining intrinsic freedom and negating the theory of predetermination
- No contradiction between the internally value-oriented system and freedom
- The connection between religious, obligations and freedom
- The connection of hudud and ta‘zirat with freedom
- The existence of state and laws negates absolute freedom
- The exigency of linking sovereignty with Allah
- Session 36: Need for Decisiveness in Implementing Islamic Ordinances
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- Social impact of human action and the necessity of government
- The legitimate source of government and the enigmas of democracy
- The government’s legitimacy in Islam
- The prophets and their way of guiding people
- The need to remove obstacles along the way of guidance
- The necessity of preserving divine values and negating Western values
- Decisiveness in implementing laws and struggling against enemies of the system
- Warning people against conspirators and mercenaries
- Session 37: A Scrutiny of the Issue of Violence
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- The enemies’ sinister propaganda and activities against Islam
- The West and its pretentious defense of human rights
- Resorting to violence and plotting to topple down the Islamic system
- Paving the ground for the absence of people from the scene
- The exigency of confronting cultural conspiracies and misgivings about religious sanctities
- Islam’s description of God’s mercy and wrath
- The necessity of confronting enemies and hypocrites, and eliminating impediments to guidance
- Opposition to the penal and criminal laws of Islam
- Violent measures not confined to the domain of penal and criminal laws
- Islam and the need to answer all academic objections under all circumstances
- Confronting the conspiracies and reaction of foreigners
- The Qur’an and the need to repudiate and be inimical to its enemies
- Session 38: Confrontation of Western Ideas and Beliefs’ with Islamic Laws
- The Constitutional Movement and propagation of Western values
- Some writers’ displeasure at the presentation of ideal freedom in Islam
- Islamic decree on enemy combatants and agents of corruption on earth
- The consequences of the lack of decisive step against conspirators
- Irresponsible stances against the issue of violence
- An examination of the synonym of the word “violence” in the Qur’an
- The Western and Islamic concept of tolerance
- Session 39: An Investigation of the Relativity of Values and Religious Narratives
- 1. First approach to the relativity of knowledge
- 2. Second approach to the relativity of knowledge (relativity of values)
- 3. Third approach to the relativity of knowledge (relativity of religious knowledge)
- Session 40: Religious Knowledge: Fiction or True Reflection?
- The status of realistic and unrealistic languages
- The motive of introducing the language of religion as symbolic and unrealistic
- Westernized intellectuals, the promoters of the theory of relativity of religion
- Eclectic understanding of the story of Habil and Qabil
- The presentation of an ambiguous image of religion
- Comparing the Qur’an with the language of poetry as a justification of pluralist interpretations
- The plurality of interpretations and trends of knowledge in hermeneutics
- Words and the possibility of their arriving at different truths
- The possibility of acquiring absolute and real knowledge of the Qur’an
- The relativists’ unfounded claim of Qur’anic language being unreal
- Imam ‘Ali’s (‘a) expression of concern over cultural confusion and the distortion of religion
- The necessity of removing personal preferences from the domain of religion
- Index
Islamic Political Theory Legislation Koli
BOOK ID
Author(s): Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi
Translator(s): Mansoor L. Limba
Publisher(s): Ahlul Bayt World Assembly
Category: General Politics Current Affairs
Topic Tags: Islam Politics Government Miscellaneous information: Project supervisor: Translation Unit, Cultural Affairs Department, The Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) World Assembly (ABWA) ISBN: 978-964-529-455-5
Congress Classification: BP231/م55ن604952 1390
Dewey Classification: 297/4832
National bibliography numbers: 3824944
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سرشناسه : مصباح، محمدتقی، 1313 -
Mishbah Yazdi, Muhammad Taqi
عنوان قراردادی : نظریه سیاسی اسلام . انگلیسی
عنوان و نام پدیدآور : Islamic Political theory/ Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi ; translator Mansoor Limba.
مشخصات نشر : [Beirut]: the Ahl al - Bayt (a) world Assembly (ABWA), 2011-= 1390-
مشخصات ظاهری : ج.
شابک : 978-964-529-455-5
یادداشت : انگلیسی.
یادداشت : کتابنامه.
یادداشت : نمایه.
مندرجات : v. 1. legislation.-v.2. statecraft
موضوع : اسلام و دولت
موضوع : اسلام و سیاست
شناسه افزوده : لیمبا، منصور، مترجم
شناسه افزوده : Limba, Mansoor
رده بندی کنگره : BP231/م55ن604952 1390
رده بندی دیویی : 297/4832
شماره کتابشناسی ملی : 3824944
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Volume1
BOOK ID
Author(s): Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi
Translator(s): Mansoor L. Limba
Publisher(s): Ahlul Bayt World Assembly
Category: General Politics Current Affairs
Topic Tags: Islam Politics Government Miscellaneous information: Project supervisor: Translation Unit, Cultural Affairs Department, The Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) World Assembly (ABWA) ISBN: 978-964-529-455-5
Congress Classification: BP231/م55ن604952 1390
Dewey Classification: 297/4832
National bibliography numbers: 3824944
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سرشناسه : مصباح، محمدتقی، 1313 -
Mishbah Yazdi, Muhammad Taqi
عنوان قراردادی : نظریه سیاسی اسلام . انگلیسی
عنوان و نام پدیدآور : Islamic Political theory/ Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi ; translator Mansoor Limba.
مشخصات نشر : [Beirut]: the Ahl al - Bayt (a) world Assembly (ABWA), 2011-= 1390-
مشخصات ظاهری : ج.
شابک : 978-964-529-455-5
یادداشت : انگلیسی.
یادداشت : کتابنامه.
یادداشت : نمایه.
مندرجات : v. 1. legislation.-v.2. statecraft
موضوع : اسلام و دولت
موضوع : اسلام و سیاست
شناسه افزوده : لیمبا، منصور، مترجم
شناسه افزوده : Limba, Mansoor
رده بندی کنگره : BP231/م55ن604952 1390
رده بندی دیویی : 297/4832
شماره کتابشناسی ملی : 3824944
p: 1