Āyatullah Misbāh Yazd?: Politics, Knowledge, and the Good Life

Siavoshi, Sussan

doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.2009.01308.x

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“…Another theorist of governmental Shī ʿism is Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi who developed the theory of divine designation. This theory is also referred to as “maximizing the reach of religion” given that Mesbah advocates the maximum presence of religion in politics (Siavoshi 2010, 126). For Mesbah-Yazdi, the ideal political system is that represented by the divine; God is the only perfect being and thus should be the source of law, meaning that any law ordained by human beings is imperfect and subject to criticism.…”

Section: Divine Sovereignty: the Linchpin Of Governmental Shī ʿIsmmentioning

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A typology of shī ʿī discourses and possibilities of democracy

Ghobadzadeh

Akbar

2023

Critical Research on Religion

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This article presents a typology of the major religio-political discourses in the Shī ʿī world, namely Shī ʿa orthodoxy, governmental Shī ʿism, and reformist Shī ʿism. We compare the political stance of the former discourse, which has received the least amount of attention in academic circles, with the other two well-researched discourses. The typology offered in this article will be helpful not only in providing a comprehensive picture of Shī ʿī politico-religious discourses, but also in providing a useful framework for further comparative analyses. We investigate the political theology and history of these discourses, as well as their capacity to accommodate popular sovereignty. We argue that while both orthodox and reformist Shī ʿī discourses embrace popular sovereignty, the linchpin of governmental Shī ʿism is divine sovereignty, which cannot be reconciled with popular sovereignty.

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Section: Divine Sovereignty: the Linchpin Of Governmental Shī ʿIsmmentioning

confidence: 99%