A Comparative Study of the Components of Islamic Governance in the Thought of Ayatollah Taleghani and Seyyed Qutb with Emphasis on Spriggans' Theory

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1 PhD student, Department of Quran and Hadith, South Tehran Branch, Azad University

2 University Of Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education and Islamic Thought, University of Tehran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Quran and Hadith, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.30465/cps.2025.51603.3545

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Since the formation of the first human civilizations until today, the issue of governance has been one of the most important socio-political issues of human societies. Throughout history, thinkers with different approaches have always put forward their theories for desirable governance. Meanwhile, with the emergence of Islam and the establishment of the Prophet's government in Medina, a different model was proposed for the issue of governance. After the death of the Prophet of Islam, many challenges arose regarding the nature of Islamic governance due to differences among Muslims.

In this article, focusing on the views of two contemporary thinkers of the Islamic world, Sayyid Qutb and Ayatollah Taleghani, their thoughts related to Islamic governance have been examined; both thinkers have explained Islamic governance by emphasizing the Quran and the socio-political interpretation of the Quran. The main question of the article is the question of the views of these two thinkers regarding Islamic governance, and the hypothesis of the article tests the idea that the desired model of governance in the thought of Ayatollah Taleghani is drawn more with an emphasis on the concept of shur-aism, and in the thought of Sayyid Qutb with an emphasis on the revival of the concept of jihad. The method of this research, inspired by the theory of Thomas Spriggans, follows a four-stage study in the thought of these two thinkers, which first observes and identifies the problems and issues of Islamic societies, and in the second stage analyzes and searches for the pathology and causes of the crisis, and in the third stage, the theoretical reconstruction of the ideal and desirable society from the perspective of Islamic governance, and in the fourth stage, presents solutions and provides treatment.

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