Developments of Shi'ite Jurisprudence Interacting with the Process of Innovation in Post-Revolution Iran

Document Type : Research Article

Author

• yahya Fowzi

International University of Imam Khomeini, Qazvin

10.22067/jfiqh.2020.60903.0

Abstract

fter the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the movement launched by the Shi'ite Islamists and jurists needed to take position on various issues and explicitly and specifically express legal viewpoints for planning policies and programs in running the state. In this direction, they had to abide by their legal fundamentals in their taking positions on one hand, and to pursue the progress and prosperity of the state on the other. In fact, they were to provide an alternative pattern of renovation that could implement the intellectual accomplishments of the modern world in the Islamic Community. Consequently, they encountered serious subjective and objective queries and challenges in various fields which, as a whole, exerted great impacts on Shi'ite political jurisprudence.
In this paper, it is attempted to respond to such questions as: How did coming to power by the Shi'ite Islam in Iran influence Shi'ite political jurisprudence? In what fields did the influencing occur? In reply to these questions through a historical-analytical method, the impact of such challenges on Shi'ite political jurisprudence and their consequences is discussed, while dimensions of Shi'ite jurists' interaction in various political, social, and economic arenas after the revolution are also touched upon.

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