Victory of the Islamic Revolution under Imam Khomeini’s leadership on February 11, 1979 is regarded as one of the most significant event of the contemporary era. Iran, Middle Eastern countries and international community had witnessed emergence of one of the most influential personality in 1970′s. Imam Khomeini appeared in Iran, but major features of his character converted this great and influential personality into infra-national figure. He always addressed the whole Muslim World and for this reason, he dealt with religion as a global issue. Due to his particular attention towards religion as a global phenomenon, the Islamic movement made a constant progress and expanded in the Middle East region following the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran. The Islamic revolution stepped in as a comprehensive system in the World arena and was quick to respond the modern challenges, complicated social faculties and human’s needs to religion. The discourse of intellectual discussions that were formed following the success of revolution, called into question some of the previous religious practices, which had been entirely, detached from politics. It also made best use of several terminologies from other political disciplines and interacted with several systems in order to enhance the functions of Shia school of thoughts and scholars. It also revolutionized the basic value system and substituted pure Islamic values instead of previous wrong approaches.
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