Bi-Quarterly Political Knowledge
In Search for a Model of Political System in Imam Khomeini’s Velayat-e-Faqih: A Qualitative Content Analysis
Document Type : Science - Research (Political Science)
Authors
1 PhD Student in Political Science at Tehran University
2 MA in Political Science from Tehran University
Abstract
Velayat-e faqih written by Imam Khomeini has gained a unique position in the analysis of Imam Khomeini's thinking pattern. Due to its special contents with a variety of components and categories being connected to one another, the analysis and understanding of the book Velayat-e faqih requires an application of an appropriate methodological approach. In this article, an attempt has been made to understand the book based on the qualitative content analysis. The qualitative content analysis not only provides a distinctive interpretation of the book, but also, due to the fact that it is a basic method, the results of this study may work as a guidance for other investigators in discourse analysis and other content analyses in the analysis of the book Velayat-e faqih. The qualitative content analysis is achieved by first determining the meaning dimensions of the text and labeling them in the form of codes and then discovering the connections and links between them by categorizing the codes and placing them under a proper theme. By doing so, we will be able to present a special interpretation of political system pattern in the book Velayat-e faqih of Imam Khomeini. Ultimately, the findings of the articles shows the principle of "good governance in Islam" and the "necessity for revolution" as the two main messages of the book.
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Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
ESSAYNovember 2016Pages 139-162
- Receive Date: 11 November 2017
- Revise Date: 13 October 2017
- Accept Date: 10 February 2018