The Muslim Revivalist Movements: The Role of Imam Khomeini in its Development and Continuity

Imam Khomeini has achieved successes in continuance of the movement of religious revivalism, that other Islamic reformists have achieved less. Imam Khomeini is one of significant revivalists who led the Islamic revolution in Iran and consequently brought about changes in Muslim society and civilization. In this article, distinctive features of Imam Khomeini’s revivalism will be examined.

Jewish community lives in peace in Iran

A leader of the Jewish community in Tehran says followers of the religion live in peace in Iran as local Muslims respect their customs and the government remains committed to the religious law.

Imam Khomeini stressed that knowledge should be accompanied by piety [taqwa] and refinement of the ...

Imam Khomeini through his works stressed that knowledge should be accompanied by piety [taqwa] and refinement of the soul.

Imam Khomeini's exposition of Forty ahadith range broad area of ethical and spiritual topics

Imam Khomeini's selection and exposition of Forty ahadith range over a broad area of Islamic philosophy, ideology, ethics, metaphysics and spirituality.

Imam Khomeini prayed and thanked lady who knitted jacket for him

How did the founder of Islamic Republic describe importance of Imam Raza’s holy shrine in Iran?

Imam's views about a person who feels a sense of superiority

According to Imam Khomeini, Kibr is the name of a psychic state in which a person feels a sense of superiority and behaves high-handedly with others.

Imam explains about ignorance and absence of knowledge

Imam Khomeini explains through his theological works that one of kind of kibr signifies the extreme of ignorance and the absence of knowledge about one’s limits and the majesty of the Necessary Being. As to the kibr towards the prophets and awliya’ of God, it was an attitude, which was more prevalent during their own days.