Contemporary Political Studies

Contemporary Political Studies

Strategies to achieve modern Islamic civilization using Meta-Synthesis method

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Authors
1 Department of Political Thought, Faculty of Political Science, Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor of Political Science, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies
3 Associate Professor of the Department of Political Thought in Islam, ,Imam Khomeini Research Institute and Islamic Revolution Tehran, I.R.Iran
4 Shahed UniversityProfessor of Political Science,Shahed University, Tehran, I.R.Iran
Abstract
Abstract
Achieving the goal of new Islamic civilization requires a kind of theoretical synergy and also relying on the findings of existing research works. These works, despite their breadth, are faced with the harm of parallel work and sometimes confusion in the findings. With the aim of solving this problem and answering the question that "based on how new Islamic civilization is represented in written works after the Islamic revolution, what are the strategies to achieve it and what are the central core of these strategies?", seeking to extract an explanatory model among available findings.
In this way, we chose the Meta-Synthesis method and in the form of its steps, from 514 strategies extracted from 296 research works, into 52 categories and four meta-categories: "progress-oriented monotheistic software production", "enhancement of religious, native and revolutionary culture and its application at the level of governance and society", "reform of political structures and behaviors in the framework of regional religious democratic governments and aimed at Ummah-building" and "development of science and justice-oriented material life, aimed at promoting Spiritual", we achieved. By putting these four points together, the focal core of the theoretical model can be considered as "a theoretical and practical movement aimed at improving the material and spiritual life with the aim of realizing a virtuous life in the Islamic Ummah".
Keywords: civilization, Islamic civilization, new Islamic civilization, Meta-Synthesis method, Imam Khomeini, Ayatollah Khamenei
 
Introduction
Achieving a comprehensive, sustainable and homogeneous development in the country and the Islamic world is not possible except through achieving a new civilization based on Islam. Exit from the rule of opposing civilizations passes through this path. Therefore, the thoughts of the leaders of the Islamic Revolution, as well as their practical course in the positive movement after the Islamic Revolution, express the demand for a new civilization in the movement of the Islamic Revolution.
Imam Khomeini (RA) based on his civilizational view, while criticizing the existing western civilization and the civilization claimed by the Pahlavi regime under titles such as "Great Civilization", mentioned the revival of Islamic civilization as an important goal of the Islamic government. Ayatollah Khamenei also developed the civilizational system of thought by continuing to lay the foundations of Imam Khomeini's civilization on the path of the Islamic Revolution, along with new conceptualizations.    
Based on the above importance and in the position of operationalizing the realization of modern Islamic civilization, the necessity of some kind of theoretical consensus on it and its approval on the basis of previous studies and researches is evident. The deficiency in this consensus forms the main necessity of the current research. Regarding the nature of modern Islamic civilization and the ways to achieve it, various works have been published by Iranian and non-Iranian researchers in the form of articles, books and lectures. However, these works, despite their breadth, face the problem of parallel work, lack of coherence and, consequently, lack of synergy in the findings.
That is why some of these efforts have been repeated with common main and secondary questions, and others have reached different and sometimes contradictory results in terms of explaining what this civilization is and the strategies for its realization. On the other hand, despite the need for practical output in civilization studies, the researcher of this field can hardly find the point that the literature of previous studies has reached and discover the position and mission of his research.
Therefore, it is necessary to find a revised synthesis with complementary components from a very large and sometimes chaotic and even conflicting volume of information in the field of modern Islamic civilization; An innovative mission that shaped the problem of this research.
The topics raised under the topic of modern Islamic civilization include different axes such as the foundations, components and obstacles of this ideal and strategies to achieve it. Since the macro of these axes has been studied in the extensive research of the responsible author (Sadr Shirazi, 1402), in the current research only the critical discussion of strategies to achieve this goal has been examined.
The practical axis of "Strategies" is of double importance because it is the intermediate link between the theoretical issues of modern Islamic civilization and the step of its implementation. With the above prerequisites, this research was done by focusing on the importance of providing a more comprehensive insight and away from the mentioned harms.
This effort, by theoretically organizing the existing written works in the field of modern Islamic civilization and achieving a synthesis and a theoretical model among these works, sought to answer the question, "Through which strategies is the realization of the modern Islamic civilization possible?".
 
Materials & Methods
Considering its purpose and distinctiveness, this research has used the Meta Synthesis method and has reached from the primary data to the largest categories and finally a common understanding of the practical strategies of modern Islamic civilization.
The idea of qualitative meta-analysis (Meta Synthesis) seems to have been formally proposed by Stern and Harris in 1985 (Abadi and Amiri, 2018). In this method, researchers start their work with the premise that Access to reality is possible only through social structures such as language and common meanings, and therefore they try to understand themes extracted from language or understanding the meanings that people give to phenomena, through theology. understand them. (Fawzi, 1400 A: 235)
Different methodologists consider different steps for metasynthesis. Meanwhile, Sandelowski and Barroso's model (Sandelowski & Barroso, 2007) is very popular among metaphysical researchers. The current research will be inspired by its steps. These steps, with a slight change according to the needs of this article, are, respectively: formulation of the question, review of the literature in a systematic form, deep search and final selection of the studied community, extraction of research information, data combination and finally presentation of the results.
 
Discussion & Result
Based on the findings of selected research works, a treasure including 514 distinct strategies and solutions have been extracted, these strategies include 11 big categories including 22 sub-categories, all of which can be divided into four main meta-categories below. are divisions. These meta-categories, which are derived from four types of strategies (theoretical, cultural, objective and political development), will form the joints of the theoretical model.
These joints are: 1. Science-oriented and justice-oriented development of material life aimed at spiritual advancement, 2. Reforming political structures and behaviors in the framework of regional religious democratic governments and aimed at nation-building, 3. Production of monotheistic development software based on rationality and a civilizational outlook. and 4. Promotion of insight, beliefs and religious, indigenous and revolutionary culture and its application at the level of governance and the general society.
 
Conclusion
By putting together the above-mentioned four meta-categories and considering the 514 concepts emphasized by the selected researchers and their categorization process, it is possible to define the focal core of the theoretical model and the highest point of the abstract movement, "movement Both theoretical and practical aimed at improving material and spiritual life with the aim of realizing good life in the Islamic Ummah.
It is claimed that all the extracted concepts and categories are in the form of capillaries and networks of this core, and on the other hand, this point gives meaning and life to all those labeled concepts and categories.
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