Volume 15, Issue 2 (Political researches of the Islamic world, summer 2025)
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daneshmand A, azhdari B, Hassani Bagheri M. Dimensions of Political Spirituality in the Islamic Revolution from the Perspective of Michel Foucault. پژوهشهاي سياسي جهان اسلام 2025; 15 (2) :51-66
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1- Department of Political Science, Baft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Baft, Iran
2- Department of Political Science, Baft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Baft, Iran (responsible Author)
3- Department of Political Science, Baft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Baft, Iran ,mhbagheri@iau.ac.ir
2- Department of Political Science, Baft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Baft, Iran (responsible Author)
3- Department of Political Science, Baft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Baft, Iran ,
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The Islamic Revolution of Iran is considered one of the most prominent and at the same time most challenging socio-political events of the twentieth century; an event that not only transformed the previous political order of Iran, but also faced fundamental challenges to many of the dominant frameworks in modern theories of revolution, politics, and power.
Meanwhile, the attention of some Western thinkers to the Islamic Revolution, especially the simultaneous and field-based attention, played an important role in opening new theoretical horizons. Among them, Michel Foucault holds a unique position.
Foucault, who was engaged in rethinking the concepts of power, subject, and resistance in the late 1970s, saw the Islamic Revolution of Iran as an opportunity to observe a type of political action in which politics went beyond the mere logic of power-seeking and modern institutionalization and was tied to a kind of spirituality. The fundamental question of the research is: What are the dimensions of spirituality in the Islamic Revolution according to Foucault?
In her works and writings on Iran, Foucault spoke of the emergence of a phenomenon she called "political spirituality," a concept that reflected people's efforts to transform not only political structures, but also their way of living, their relationship with themselves, and their way of confronting domination.
This research aims to reconstruct the concept of political spirituality and examine its dimensions by adopting a theoretical, qualitative, and comparative approach and by carefully analyzing Foucault.
Meanwhile, the attention of some Western thinkers to the Islamic Revolution, especially the simultaneous and field-based attention, played an important role in opening new theoretical horizons. Among them, Michel Foucault holds a unique position.
Foucault, who was engaged in rethinking the concepts of power, subject, and resistance in the late 1970s, saw the Islamic Revolution of Iran as an opportunity to observe a type of political action in which politics went beyond the mere logic of power-seeking and modern institutionalization and was tied to a kind of spirituality. The fundamental question of the research is: What are the dimensions of spirituality in the Islamic Revolution according to Foucault?
In her works and writings on Iran, Foucault spoke of the emergence of a phenomenon she called "political spirituality," a concept that reflected people's efforts to transform not only political structures, but also their way of living, their relationship with themselves, and their way of confronting domination.
This research aims to reconstruct the concept of political spirituality and examine its dimensions by adopting a theoretical, qualitative, and comparative approach and by carefully analyzing Foucault.
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Received: 2025/01/19 | Accepted: 2025/05/13 | Published: 2025/04/3
Received: 2025/01/19 | Accepted: 2025/05/13 | Published: 2025/04/3
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