How To Use Khomeini In A Sentence
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A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing.
Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives
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Two prominent antagonists were Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, representing hard-line clerical authority, and sociologist and activist Ali Shariati, representing, according to John Esposito, "a more nonclerical, innovative, creative reformist approach.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: Iran: One Revolution at a Time
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They had to condemn Khomeini's intrusion into the affairs of another state.
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As noted, this new organisation - inclusive though it tried to appear - was devoted to Khomeini's notion of the absolute guardianship of the jurisconsult.
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Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri—the tufted-eared senior theologian whom Khomeini had called the “fruit of my life,” before he became an outspoken regime critic and finally spiritual mentor of the opposition—died in his sleep in December 2009, during the holy month of Moharram.
Let the Swords Encircle Me
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People are now beginning to openly question the institution of the velayat-e faqih, or the rule of the jurist, which is the Khomeinist system of governance that was implemented in 1979.
Will Khamenei sacrifice Ahmadinejad to save himself?
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Khomeini, many people believe, may have abhorred electoral democracy; but he was forced to compromise with nonclerical Islamists who had been influenced by modern democratic notions.
Who Rules Iran?
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After more than a year of political struggle between different groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini by popular vote.
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The key decider during this period - as in the October Surprise phase - was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada.
Undefined
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It is a peculiar irony that in today's campaign against Khomeini's political heirs, the opposition movement is appealing to many of the same grievances Khomeini cited in his campaign against the shah.
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In a common fallacy, however, many Sunnis tend to conflate Iraqi Shiite Islamists with the Iranian regime next door, even though the political ideology of Iraqi Shiites does not mesh with Ayatollah Khomeini's vilayet e-fakih (the guardianship of the jurist) and although ever since their return from exile in Iran in 2003, the Shiite Islamists have actively sought to shed whatever Iranian veneer they had acquired.
Iraq on the Edge
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They support the protests as a secular reaction to the Khomeini revolution, as the first step towards a new liberal-democratic Iran freed from Muslim fundamentalism.
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After more than a year of political struggle between different groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini by popular vote.
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The key decider during this period -- as in the October Surprise phase -- was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada.
Printing: Iran Divided & the 'October Surprise'
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The Iranian-American moviemaker Cyrus Nowrasteh has brought his experience of TV documentaries to bear on the true story of an Iranian woman, Soraya M, framed as an adulterer by her husband in the early years of Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran and stoned to death by her fellow villagers.
The Stoning of Soraya M – review
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Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question London: Longmans, 1892, vol. 2, p. 631, as quoted and cited in Abrahamian, Khomeinism, p.
Let the Swords Encircle Me
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They are esotericists and are considered heretical by the Khomeinists.
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Will the Muslim Brotherhood Prove to Be Egypt's Version of Ayatollah Khomeini?
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Moreover, in Iranian prisons, on Khomeini's direct order, about four thousand MEK prisoners, who were serving time on earlier charges, were summarily executed lest they help the invading MEK units.
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Although Khomeini himself passed from the scene just weeks after issuing his decree, the spirit it engendered is very much alive.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1002
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There they would force Khomeini to negotiate a deal and to broadcast it to the people.
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The Khomeinists will do well, but will lack legitimacy, and it may be a pyrrhic victory for them.
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There they would force Khomeini to negotiate a deal and to broadcast it to the people.
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We thought Khomeini would probably intercede and free the hostages, or at least talk to us about finding some way to negotiate a settlement.
The Good Fight
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Ever since the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or death sentence, against Rushdie for what some Muslims called the blasphemies in his fantasy-filled novel "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie has been in hiding under the protection of Britain's security police.
The Stories Never Stop
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There was no chance that Khomeini would withdraw the fatwa.
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Khomeini, deploring the moral degradation he saw around him and the people's lack of will and moral fibre to combat it, pledged his opposition ‘as long as there is blood in my veins.’
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And finally, in the months after the Islamic republic was established, Khomeini's Iran plunged into bloody violence between competing factions.
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Khomeini preached the theory of wilayat al-faqih (jurisconsult); an elitist concept associated with the supremacy of senior Shiite clergy.
Joshua Gleis: Religious Divisions in Iran's Leadership -- More than Meets the Eye
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There were still those among the Shah's military who believed that a coup against Khomeini was possible.
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The re-enactment prompted a national hysteria of jokes and ridicule calling Mr. Khomeini the "cardboard Imam.
Letter Writers Break Iranian Taboo
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At that time Khomeini's old friend grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari wrote a fatwa denouncing the events and for the first time used the term revolution using one of the verses of the Quran.
Negotiation with Iranian government, neglecting the Iranian people:
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A quietist, he rejected involvement in politics and rejected Khomeini's theory of clerical rule.
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Worse was to come when no less a person than Khomeini called for their execution should the deed prove to be deliberate.
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Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
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Upon hisarrival at the Imam Khomeini International airport, alarge crowd of reporters met him with cameras, notebooks and laptops in hand.
Chris de Burgh to perform in Iran
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In his critique of the traditional Shia clergy -- a group that he described as sclerotic and superstitious, enemies of progress and true Islam -- Shariati had exempted Khomeini, praising him for his fierce fight against despotism and colonialism.
The New Republic - All Feed
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The cast of characters, their overlap with historical figures including Bollywood actors/actresses and their affairs, producers, not to mention Khomeini and ..of course Mahound and the verve of the writing.
Fatwa on Rushdie Turns 20, Still in Force - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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Vilayet-i-faquih is the special term promulgated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to describe the idea that all of Iranian society is under the permanent stewardship (sometimes rendered as guardianship) of the mullahs.
'A Call to Prayer From the Rubble of the WTC'
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Ahmadinejad's program is reminiscent of the pronatalist policy Ayatollah Khomeini pursued following the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Nasim Novin: Is Ahmadinejad Instigating a Demographic Catastrophe?
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· This Gov is not what Imam Khomeini wanted for Iran - #Irane lection I will change all this - This is the SEA of GREEN
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18)
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And its unhingement would in turn naturally cause Islam, the Islam of Khomeini and his ilk, to make a comeback.
OPEN THREAD.
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, speech on the political role of the clergy, in Islamic Unity Against Imperialism: Eight Documents of the Islamic Revolution in Iran New York: Islamic Association of Iranian Professionals and Merchants in America, 1981, p. 8, as quoted and cited in Abrahamian, Khomeinism, p.
Let the Swords Encircle Me
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What a mihrab means to the Wahhabists, the Khomeini-ists and the other Salafists explained the meaning of a Mecca-direction indicator (called a mihrab), like the one now being planted on the Flight 93 crash site:
Error Theory
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When we do not apply the term charismatic to figures like Khomeini, we trivialize them and we trivialize their followers.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2