نویسنده
مؤسسه آموزشی و پژوهشی امام خمینی(ره)
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
The Islamic Revolution of Iran-arguably the biggest socio-political even of the twentieth century-took place in spite of the predictions of social scientists to the contrary and in a time when the ideology of secularism had permeated both Western and non-Western societies. Hence it was truly remarkable and became the focus of attention and subject of analysis of all types of pundits, including those hailing from the West. The study at hand aims to investigate the views and analyses of orientalists with regards to the Islamic revolution-its identity, its roots and its consequences. This research uses the analytical method and draws upon the method of content analysis to investigate their point of view.
The paper concludes that in general, the orientalists can be divided into two groups: realists who interpreted the Islamic revolution to be a consequence of the crisis of secularism (in theory and practice) and a type of populism; contrarians who interpreted the Islamic revolution in an “inverse” fashion, for instance seeing it to be the result of charismatic leadership and reducing the role that religion played in it.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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