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In the Beginning: Iran’s Constitutional Law After the 1979 Islamic Revolution

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This chapter critically examines the viewpoints of Khomeini, Shariati and Bazargan and their followers with regard to their influence on the development of the constitution and constitutional law of Iran, following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and elaborates the concept of ideology from the five analytical perspectives that this book employs.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Allah does not change people’s situation unless they change themselves… (11) (Yusuf Ali 2016, p. 250).

  2. 2.

    … The command is for no one but Allah… (40) (Yusuf Ali 2016, p. 240).

  3. 3.

    …“Allah doth command you to render back your Trusts to those to whom they are due”…(58) (Yusuf Ali 2016, p. 87).

  4. 4.

    “The qualifications and attributes of the leader are as follows:

    1—scholarly qualification for issuing religious ruling (fatwa) concerning various discussions in jurisprudence; 2—required justice and piety in leading the Islamic community; 3—sound political and social perspective, prudence, courage, sufficient administrative capability, and power for leadership. In case there are a number of candidates who meet these qualifications, the person with a more efficacious political and jurisprudential insight has priority.” (Papan-Matin 2014, pp. 184–185)

  5. 5.

    “The leader will be dismissed from his position in case he is incapable of performing his legal responsibilities, becomes deficient in one of the qualifications mentioned in Article 5 and 109; or it becomes evident that from the offset he has been lacking in some of the qualifications. This issue shall be determined by the Council of Experts, as mentioned in Article 108. In the aforementioned case, or in case of the death, resignation, or dismissal of the leader, the Experts are responsible for designating a new leader as soon as possible. Until the leader is introduced, a council consisting of the President of the Republic, the head of the judiciary power, and one of the jurisprudents of the Guardian Council, selected by the Expediency Council, will temporarily assume all the responsibilities of the leadership. If during this time any of them, for any reason, cannot fulfil his duties, another individual will be assigned in his place according to the vote of the assembly and with respect to maintaining the majority of the jurisprudents in the council. The council must obtain three-fourths approval of the members of Expediency Council, in order to fulfil the responsibilities that are outlined in Article 110, sections 1, 3, 5, 10, and segments ‘d,’ ‘e,’ ‘f’ of section 6. Whenever the leader, due to illness or other incidents, is temporarily unable to fulfil the duties of leadership, the council mentioned above in this Article assumes his responsibilities” (Papan-Matin 2014, pp. 186–187).

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Lolaki, S.M. (2020). In the Beginning: Iran’s Constitutional Law After the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In: Diverging Approaches of Political Islamic Thought in Iran since the 1960s. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0478-5_8

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