What effects do you think successful Iranian revolution had on religious politics in Islamic world?
Re: Iranian Revolution And Religious Politics in Muslim World
Religious politics started well before Iranian revolution. Especially in Egypt where Muslim Brotherhood (اخوان المسلمین) has been trying to bring about revolution for at least a century. Even though things have never been their way.
But nowhere in the world has such revolution happened except Iran. And it happened so quickly that everyone was taken by surprise. Only a couple of years back people were unanimous that Shah's government was in no danger.
So their sudden successful revolution brought new vigor all around the Muslim world to try to do something similar everywhere else. Zia's attempts of Islamization may have its impetus in Iranian revolution. Struggle of creating a khilafat in Afghanistan may also have been an attempt to imitate their success. Also, the emergence of Hezbollah politics in Lebanon and re-direction of Palestinian politics from Fatah to Hamas are the examples of effect of Iranian revolution.
Other than these examples the attempts did not bear fruition. Even though general population in other countries did appreciate Islamic politics, but due to absence of democracies and presence of dictatorships, their desire had not much effect on the politics of their respective countries.
I for one think that it would actually have been advantageous if such people are brought to power. People usually have very romantic ideals about what the life under them would look like. And their ideals are shattered only when they actually live under the laws enacted by these people. We see the examples in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and FATA. People of these countries/areas were adamant supporters of religious politics, but they revolted when they actually happened to experience them.
Iranian revolution is still working only because of their vast natural resources, and also because of extremist stance of the West against Iranian nation. This extremism from America actually unites Iranians. If Americans leave Iranians on their own then we might see another sudden counter-revolution.
I am not a hardcore person who’s anti-Iran but the country is already being destructed from the inside. It’s going to be an even shorter lived Ottoman Empire, I don’t know if you have seen the video where Hasan Khomeini was interrupted and never was able to finish the speech on Ayatullah Khomeini’s barsi. That’s all I have to say on the topic though. Both the opposition and government are deviant so there is no need for me to comment on their fighting.
Re: Iranian Revolution And Religious Politics in Muslim World
khoji
Muslim brotherhood had its roots in islamic religious politics that emerged as part of freedom struggle against colonialism. Iranian revolution was first against ones own local secular government.
It served as an example and encouragemnt to all the political clergy who wanted to imitate. What was fascinating for them was
-rule by clergy rather than statesmen or politicians
-black robe clad women all around in a previously open society
Re: Iranian Revolution And Religious Politics in Muslim World
^ muslim brother also struggled against own secular govts , they just were not so successful.
If the Shah had been more brutal like Nasser or his successors its interesting how the revolution would have turned out.
Infact there are a lot of parallels between iranian and bolshevik revolution
both were POPULAR uprisings which were later taken over by a specific political system which attempted to stifle all other opposition parties who were intially their allies in overthrowing monarchy.