Islam and government: An analytical review on Khumayni's Kashf al-Asrār and Wilāyat al-Fāqih

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to scrutinize Khumayni's ideas especially on government as explained in his works Kashf al-Asrār, and Wilāyat al-Fāqih. While focusing on Khumayni's ideas as the main issues of discussion, the paper tries to find the significance of the ideas for the Iranian revolution in 1979.The paper argues that the ideas on government were mainly triggered by the Reza Shah's dictatorial, and secular government. It is not exaggerated to mention that according to Khumayni a new sytem of government based on Islamic ideology as a revolutionary system of government was needed in a sense that an Islamic government will implement justice. As will be discussed later, the idea of Islamic government as the single alternative was extensively supported by students, intelligentsias, urban peoples, poor peoples, and others.