International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 3

Sovereignty assessment in relation to islam and democracy

  • Author:
  • Mohammad Reza Akhzarian Kashani
  • Total Page Count: 17
  • Page Number: 1 to 17

Assistant Professor of University of Tehran

Online published on 4 January, 2021.

Abstract

Experience of democracy in Islamic states that has a particular look at changes in more pioneer countries such as Iran always demands in its depth the answer to this question when considering all religious and historic internalized traditions, how democracy should be dominated and strengthened. In these situations; answering to this inchoate Islamic democracy requirement is a necessity and every look at that is considered to be a paradigm. One of the main questions in regard of people’s dominance in its religious form is about the maximal of the most important indices of democracy due to availability of different notifications of Islam and democracy in Islamic states such as Iran and what would be approaches of each branches of Islam as traditional or modern to these indices. Since democracy under its historic concept has several fundamental mainstays, in this article we aim to pay more attention to one of these fundamental mainstays; “people’s dominance” and assess its relationship with democracy and review mentalities of traditional and modern Islamist to this matter. Fundamental assumption of this article is an existed notable gap between mentalities in regard of people’s dominance issue where resulted in two different answers to fundamental contexts of people’s dominance where in this article focus would be only on one issue of this set of issues which is called sovereignty. This article’s attempt is to answer this fundamental question of how traditional and modern considerations of Islam into sovereignty issue used to be and what is their perspective in regard of this context.

Keywords

People’s dominance, Sovereignty, People, Democracy, Islam, Tradition