نوع مقاله : علمی-پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Abstract
With the emergence of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, universal values based on the foundations of the Islamic religion and the formation of a religious government emanating from the people formed a discourse at the global level that is referred to as the new Islamic civilization. In fact, the practical and objective model of the new Islamic civilization influenced by the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the objectification of the rule of religion in practice became the reviver of Islamic and Iranian culture and civilization. The present study, by posing the question of what was the relationship between the regional developments, especially the axis of resistance (Syria, Lebanon), and the Islamic Revolution, and what role can these developments play in realizing the new Islamic civilization? It emphasizes that the Islamic Revolution of Iran has certainly been one of the determining and influential forces of the contemporary era in the field of civilization-building at the global level. To achieve this goal, using the method of meta-analysis, the attitude of the leaders of the revolution and the foreign policy apparatus has been to directly influence the countries of the Islamic world, especially the member countries of the axis of resistance (Lebanon, Syria). The goal of realizing a new Islamic civilization in the aforementioned countries was based on their anti-Western approach, shared cultural and historical ties, shared Shiite religion, and competition with the West. The research findings show that the Islamic Revolution has been able to provide a basis for modeling a new Islamic civilization in the social body of the countries that are members of the Resistance Front. Of course, the main idea of the article is based on the statements of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution; on the basis that resistance is a software phenomenon, not a hardware one, which will be destroyed with the martyrdom of leaders and the destruction of facilities.
Keywords: Islamic Revolution, Modern Islamic Civilization, Iran, Axis of Resistance, Syria, Lebanon.
Introduction
The founding prerequisites of civilization can be divided into two categories: soft components (science, religion, art), which are known as the mental and spiritual elements of civilization, and hard components, which include geographical area, human population, city (state, political system, territory), economy, and technology. The role of soft components is to provide content to the behavior of a group of humans throughout the history of a particular civilization. While hard components are experienced systems that can change human behavior based on the conditions of time and place. In fact, every civilization has fixed, unchangeable principles, or soft premises, and behavioral patterns conditioned by the conditions of the time, which have been the most important factors in the emergence and crystallization of different civilizations throughout history, including Islamic civilization. In a general definition, Islamic civilization is a religious civilization that is centered on Islam and has all the characteristics of divine civilization within the framework of Quranic teachings, relying on the tradition of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and its components, religion, ethics, science, justice, laws, regulations, religious principles, etc. This civilization reached its peak with the emergence of Islam by the fifth century AH. However, it declined and weakened due to various reasons, including changes and distortions in its fixed principles and disregard for the relative principles of civilization, including the role of people in the political system and disregard for empirical sciences. The establishment of the Safavid governments in Iran and the Ottoman Empire and familiarity with the West raised the need for a civilizational awakening in Islamic societies. The occurrence of political and social revolutions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries raised the issue of how to build a new Islamic civilization in the face of Western civilization.
Materials & Methods
The present study is fundamental in type and descriptive-analytical in approach. The descriptive-analytical research method describes and interprets what is, and pays attention to existing conditions or relationships, common beliefs, ongoing processes, visible effects or developing trends, and analyzes and examines existing conditions and the meaningful relationship between variables, and provides a modeled analysis of the subject under study by utilizing theoretical concepts. Its focus is primarily on the present, although it often also examines past events and effects that are related to existing conditions. Thus, the present study was conducted with a descriptive-analytical approach, and information and data were collected in a documentary-library form, and then, using a conceptual framework that has a high ability to understand the ontology of the relationship between the Islamic Revolution and the modern Islamic civilization with the developments in Syria and Lebanon, it described and analyzed the existential components of this relationship.
Discussion & Result
With the victory of the Islamic Revolution, a turning point was created in the history of Islamic civilization, and with the transformation of the equations governing collective life, a suitable space was provided for the construction of a new Islamic civilization in Iran and other countries in the Middle East. In fact, it can be said that the Islamic Revolution, under the leadership of the Imam (may Allah have mercy on him) and the wisdom of the Supreme Leader, is a reliable point for starting the process of building a new Islamic civilization, which, considering the fixed principles in the history of Islamic civilization, namely the Quran and Sunnah on the one hand, and paying attention to the national and regional capacities on the other hand, seeks a new order of civilization that is commensurate with the interests and ideals of the nations of the region. What capacities is the model of a new Islamic civilization based on and what are the limitations facing it? The model of a new Islamic civilization aims to create a divine and modern civilization by utilizing Islamic tradition as well as useful scientific and experimental modern achievements at the technological level, so that it can include all the spiritual and material aspects of a divine civilization. For this reason, the plan for a new Islamic civilization and its goals based on the values of the Islamic Revolution of Iran differ from the historical models of Islamic civilization that have been in decline. In fact, it can be said that the plan for a new Islamic civilization addresses two important questions: what is Islamic and Western civilization and how to achieve a new Islamic civilization, considering the approach of the Islamic Revolution to civilization. On the other hand, how to answer these questions in Iran as a new issue and model of the Islamic government for establishing a new civilization has been raised among the popular movements of the Middle East countries, especially the Shiite movements, as the axis of resistance. In other words, the necessity of achieving a new Islamic civilization can be considered the greatest ideal of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the axis of resistance in the Middle East region against the Western civilization model, the path to achieving which is difficult due to the lack of examination of its various dimensions. In this context, explaining the factors for creating a new Islamic civilization by relying on the intellectual foundations of the Islamic Revolution and the developments in the region will clarify the conditions and possibilities ahead, the shortcomings and obstacles before us. Attention to internal limitations and external obstacles, including the presence of colonialists in the region and the rule of their agents over political, military, and economic-regional structures, can be considered among the most important obstacles to the realization of a modern Islamic civilization, and recognizing its various angles and dimensions presents itself as an important issue for the realization of a modern Islamic civilization. Overcoming this space to provide the necessary conditions requires changing the conditions of the region by relying on modeling a modern Islamic civilization in Iran and modeling the resistance movement from it. In this context, the present study attempts to define what a modern Islamic civilization is in the sphere of the goals of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and with an emphasis on regional developments, on the one hand, to study the material and spiritual capacities to provide the necessary conditions for a modern Islamic civilization, and on the other hand, to examine the obstacles and shortcomings facing it.
Conclusion
Finally, it is important to mention that the failure of the Islamic Awakening wave, despite its anti-colonial and anti-oppression nature, in countries other than the axis of resistance indicates that there are very serious enemies and obstacles to the realization of a new Islamic civilization in the Middle East, the most important of which is the West and the Western colonial world, which creates a barrier and obstacles against the hegemony of Islamic civilization. This assumption shows that the most important evidence for the issuance of the revolution, which is based on the Islamic Awakening wave and the opponents of the fact that the revolutions in the region were inspired by the Islamic Revolution of Iran, have not been able to present a model that competes with the theory of a new Islamic civilization to respond to the problems of the Islamic world. In fact, the same civilizational and convergence face of the above revolutions that was created following the main slogans of the Islamic Revolution, namely independence, freedom and a government based on religion, has been created due to the acceptance of Western civilization as a superior civilization, as have the member countries of the axis of resistance.
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