scholarly journals The Ayatollahs and the Republic: The religious establishment in Iran and its interaction with the Islamic Republic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Kadivar
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Correct Description ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Law Making ◽  
The Revolution

The Islamic Republic of Iran is usually referred to as a theocracy, and this is a correct description in different senses. According to the constitution, a Shi’a cleric must fill the office of the leader, the highest de facto and de jure position in the country; a Shi’a jurist should also fill the head of judiciary; and Islam should be the main source of law-making in the country. On the other hand, if calling Iran a theocracy means that the Shi’a clergy as an institution rules the country, then this is not an accurate description. The clerical establishment, even after the revolution, has been separate from the regime, even though the relationship between these two entities has changed drastically after the revolution. While the Shi’a establishment in Qom claims authority over interpretation of the sacred text, the formation of a Shi’a government in Tehran with similar claims about Islamic authority and legitimacy in Tehran has created tensions and sometimes conflicts between these two. In this essay, I will look at patterns of conflict and cooperation between the Islamic Republic mainly the institution of Velayat-e Faqih (guardianship of jurist) and the clerical establishment in Qom, specifically grand ayatollahs[2] or sources of emulation at the highest levels of the Shi’a clerical hierarchy.

scholarly journals Geostrategic interests of turkey and Iran in the Caspian region

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S2) ◽  
pp. 764-773
Author(s):  
Sabir I. Shukurov
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Caspian Region ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Advantageous Position ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Republic Of Turkey ◽  
The Relationship

The relevance of this article is due to the advantageous geostrategical position of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Caspian region, which makes it a significant and attractive location for neighbouring states both politically and economically, causing not only partnership relations between the countries but also the probable insecurity of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the complex of geostrategic relations in the Caspian region on the example of the relationship of the Republic of Azerbaijan with the Republic of Turkey and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The leading method for the study of this topic is, first of all, a deep and detailed analysis of the geostrategic and geopolitically advantageous position of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as the method of comparing its relations with neighbouring states, which makes it possible to imagine as accurately as possible the general geopolitical picture of the Caspian region. 

Christian Armenia, Islamic Iran: Two (Not So) Strange Companions Geopolitical Stakes and Significance of a Special Relation ship

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Zarifian
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Special Relation ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Healthy Relationship

AbstractThis articles aims to present and analyse the healthy relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Armenia. Although focusing on the current geopolitical stakes and realities of the relationship, this article will also use history and the perceptions it has built to understand today's situation. Based on a long common history, this relationship inscribes itself in a complex geopolitical regional situation where international and local actors interact. These ties between both countries, although poorly explored, are particularly significant in the fields of politics, economy, energy, and culture. The study of this relationship offers a new outlook of the geopolitical complexity of this part of Eurasia, and presents both actors, Armenia and Iran, in a new light.

Cultural Policies and the Islamic Republic: Cinema and Book Publication

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sussan Siavoshi
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Government ◽  
Iranian State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Book Publication

The evolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the dynamics of the relationship between the Iranian state and society can be explored by examining the postrevolutionary regime's policies toward intellectuals, particularly as expressed in its regulation of cinema and book publication. This relationship—at least in the period from the early 1980s to the early 1990s—was complex and nuanced. Factionalism within the regime provided an opportunity for intellectuals to engage the state in a process of negotiation and protest, cooperation and defiance, in pushing the boundaries of permitted self-expression. The degree of their success depended in part on which faction controlled the government and its regulatory agencies during particular phases in the evolution of the postrevolutionary regime.

Comparative analysis of the criminal legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan and The Islamic Republic of Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (06) ◽  
pp. 108-112
Author(s):  
Ləman Fəxrəddin qızı Qasımzadə ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Criminal Legislation

In the article: The globalization of the modern world makes it urgent to study the legislative practice of foreign countries (including criminal law). The lack of specialized literature on this topic makes it difficult to solve this problem. In the article: The globalization of the modern world makes it urgent to study the legislative practice of foreign countries (including criminal law). The lack of specialized literature on this topic makes it difficult to solve this problem.The study of foreign law is necessary not only to guide the processes of global economic, political and cultural integration and unification, but above all to facilitate domestic criminal law. The study of foreign law is necessary not only to guide the processes of global economic, political and cultural integration and unification, but above all to facilitate domestic criminal law.As the criminal legislation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan relates to different legal systems, it is difficult to compare them, but it is mutually beneficial.Thus, it allows to identify gaps in the legislation of both countries and take measures to eliminate them. Key words: crime, responsibility, talion principle, revenge, additional punishment, so to speak

A Constitution for a Nonstate

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-58
Author(s):  
Emilio Dabed
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Constitutional Regime ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Law Making

This article sheds new light on the political history of legal-constitutional developments in Palestine in the fourteen years following the Oslo Accord. It examines the relationship between the unfolding social, political, and economic context in which they arose, on the one hand, and PA law-making and legal praxis, on the other. Focusing on the evolution of the Palestinian Basic Law and constitutional regime, the author argues that the “Palestinian constitutional process” was a major “battlefield” for the actors of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Thus, changes in the actors' political strategies at various junctures were mirrored in legal-constitutional forms, specifically in the political structure of the PA. In that sense, the constitutional order can be understood as a sort of “metaphoric representation” of Palestinian politics, reflecting, among other things, the colonial nature of the Palestinian context that the Oslo process only rearticulated. This perspective is also essential for understanding the evolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after Oslo.

6. The Court and the other branches

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Linda Greenhouse
Keyword(s):  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Accurate Description ◽  
System P ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Law Making

Is the phrase separation of powers misleading? “The Court and the other branches” looks at the Court in relation to the president and Congress. A more accurate description of the relationship between the branches might be “dynamic interaction” with tensions arising between them. Sometimes these tensions cause limited disagreements. Some developments are more ominous, such as Congress’s attempts to limit the Supreme Court’s power or the power of federal courts in general. This ingrained and constitutionally based struggle about law-making authority is expressed in a cycle of interaction and reaction that shows no sign of ending and may be hard-wired into the system.

Biotechnology Regulations in the Islamic Republic of Iran

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Negar Tayyar
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
Genetic Technologies ◽  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
Bioethical Debate

AbstractThe increasing development in biomedical advances and medical technologies makes awarefor the importance of bioethics. Progresses in the fields of stem cell research, genetic technologies, organ transplantation and cloning aroused the bioethical debate. On one hand, the focus of bioethical issues mostly neglects the Muslim view, on the other hand there is a lack of differentiation within the Islamic positions.

scholarly journals REVOLUSI ABOLISIONISME PADA NOVEL PERBUDAKAN UNCLE TOM’S CABIN KARYA HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Amiruddin
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Harriet Beecher Stowe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Revolution

Literature and revolution cannot be separated from one another. On one hand, therevolution can create literary works from writers who are responsive to the changes that took placein their time. On the other hand, literary works can trigger the revolution in the people who readthe work. In In Uncle Tom's Cabin, the relationship between literature and revolution can be seenin how the movement of the abolitionism group inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to fight slaverythrough literary works. Harriet Beecher Stowe described slavery in South America and theabolitionist revolution against abolition of slavery.

Banking and Credit Rationing Under the Islamic Republic of Iran

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Valibeigi
Keyword(s):  
Banking System ◽  
Credit Rationing ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Free Banking ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Financial Contracts ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Revolution

Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the Iranian banking system and practices have changed significantly. Shortly after the revolution, according to a decree by the Revolutionary Council, banks and insurance companies were nationalized. In 1980 and 1982 legislation was passed to convert all banking practices to Islamic interest-free banking. Despite such significant developments in the Iranian banking system, this area of research has not been given its due attention by the scholars in the field. It is the purpose of this study to describe the process of post-revolutionary change in the Iranian banking system and outline the new trends in credit rationing practices after the revolution.It will be argued here that the Islamization of the banking system did not result in the so-called abolition of interest from the financial system; in practice the banking system continues to pay interest—now called “profit“—to savings account depositors, and standard interest-bearing financial contracts continue to be utilized by the banks under new Islamic terms.

The Relationship Between Political Language and Political Reality

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

Albert Camus' ironic judge-penitent, Jean-Baptiste Clemence, remarks to his compatriot in the seedy bar, Mexico City, in a shadowy district of Amsterdam, the mist rising off the canals, the fog rolling in, cheap gin the only source of warmth, “Somebody has to have the last word. Otherwise, every reason can be answered with another one and there would never be an end to it. Power, on the other hand, settles everything. It took time, but we finally realized that. For instance, you must have noticed that our old Europe at last philosophizes in the right way. We no longer say as in simple times: ‘This is the way I think. What are your objections?’ We have become lucid. For the dialogue we have substituted the communique: ‘This is the truth,’ we say. You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right.”Now this is still an imperfect method of control—the enforcers are clearly identified and the coercion is too obvious. Not so in Orwell's1984. As Syme, the chilling destroyer of language proclaims: “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” Speaking to Orwell's protagonist Winston Smith, Syme continues: “Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactlyoneword, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten…. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”

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