In an research done by the research institute of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution's graduates, which is titled "Imam Khomeini's approach toward Imam Hussein's movement and its impact on the formation of Iran's revolution" the author tries to answer the following question:
What is Imam Khomeini's approach toward Ashura Movement?
In addition, how much impact did this attitude have on the victory of Iran's revolution?
The author employs the theory of "discourse" in order to illustrate this issue and reviews the relation between establishment of Iran's Islamic government and the change in Iran's dominant regime. Having studied sources about this issue, the author introduced the following hypothesis: Imam Khomeini believes that Ashura movement was a motivational epopee based on reformist desires that caused a drastic change in the basics of government of its time.
This treatise consists of two sections:
First section: it reviews literature of Ashura movement and theories introduced about causes and reasons of Imam Hussein's movement. In order to provide a better illustration of this issue old and new theories and opinions are discussed. In addition, philosophy of Ashura movement is analyzed from different points of view and reasons are categorized into major categories using a comparative method. Then Imam Khomeini's attitude toward this issue is also studied. And after doing a comparative analysis it became clear that there exist differences and similarities between viewpoints of Imam Khomeini and those of others and that Imam's attitude toward this movement differs greatly from those of others.
Second section: the impact of Imam Khomeini's attitude toward Ashura movement is studied.
Here it is concluded that Imam Khomeini provided chances for changes, evolutions and resistances and made it possible for people to oppose Pahlavi's regime, form Basij, develop Iran's revolution and establish Iran's Islamic government by relying on values resulted from Ashura movement and injecting these values to the culture accepted by the nation.
By Zeynab Nād‘ali Zadeh