The Movement Of The Iranian Revolution - 2044 Words

According to one classification, approaches to the study the Islamic Revolution can be divided into five groups as follows : 1. Emphasising religious Culture in the Revolution From this perspective, the cause of revolution should not be sought in economic problems, but in cultural factors. This approach is dominant in most works published in Iran after the revolution. The focus of these works in on cultural values and leadership factors of the revolution, more than any other factor. For example, Ali Davani in the book called The Movement of Clergy of Iran, in analysing the historic struggle of Shi’a clergy in Iran, tries to show that the Islamic Revolution is, in general, the continuation of the same movement. It follows that the fall of†¦show more content†¦Of course, his analysis is more of an effort to understand the revolution than to delineate its causes. Besides the mentioned authors who have a positive view about the Islamic Revolution, some of the revolution’s critical analysts also underline cultural importance. Sayid Amir Arjomand, in the book The Turban for the crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran, believes that to understand Iran’s revolution, considering two basic factors in essential; one is the shi’i clerical authority’s structure, and the other is the effect of modernised government one Iranian society. He takes a glance at socio-economic factors and pays more attention to the role of values in the revolution, and explains the determining characteristics of the revolution as its being value-oriented. The author emphasises the ideological importance of the revolution as the essential characteristic in defining it. In this book, the revolution is more the result of a fading shah and his legitimacy than the consequence of army’s disorganisation. Hassan-ol-Zein in his book, Iran’s Revolution, in Social and Ideological Dimension, has also referred to religion as the most important element in the victory of the Islamic Revolution, though implicitly in his explanations of the events, he refers to leadership factor too. In all, it seems the cultural view cannot alone explain the revolution because it does not explain