Mohsen Kadivar

Mohsen Kadivar ( born June 8, 1959 in Fasa, Iran) is a Shiite clerics with religious titles Hodjatoleslam, philosopher, university lecturer, writer and clergyman reform.

After the termination of studies in electrical engineering from Shiraz, he devoted himself to theology, to do his doctorate in Qom, Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri also, in the subjects of Islamic Law (1997) and Islamic Philosophy ( 1999). He then taught at the teachers college in Qom.

His radical for the Iranian system views with regard to the two readings of the Koran led him in the late 1990s in confrontation with the regime. On 27 February 1999 he was arrested, tried and sentenced for spreading lies to 18 months in prison. Kadivar currently applies in addition to Hassan Yussefi Eshkevari as the most distinguished clerical critic of the Iranian system.

Public opinion

Kadivar designated 2004 the official Islam as one of the greatest barriers to democratization. The other Islam is one of the most important factors in the transition to democracy in Iranian society:

Kadivar proposes to divide the Islamic doctrine into four sections. The first three parts deal with unchanging faith in God and the Prophet, ethics, morality and prayer. The fourth section deals with the rules that organize human coexistence: the criminal and commercial law, for example, the relationship between men and women, gender equality and the dress codes. These rules were changed and need to change, because change the circumstances of the time.

Calls for his resignation by the Iranian head of state

In a letter to the Chairman of the Expediency Council, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Kadivar demanded the dismissal of the Supreme Leader Ali Chamene'i. Kadivar justified this by saying that the head of state had systematically tried to prevent the Assembly of Experts on the performance of their duties and responsibilities. Kadivar designated Chamene'i in the open letter as a despot who " have both the laws and the Constitution and the rights of citizens blatantly disregarded and acted contrary to the principles of Islam."

Works

Of nine published books Kadivars act four of political theology, including a significant treatise on

Kadivar is different in the state of the Shia in a) four temporal types:

  • Nominated authority of the jurists in the religious affairs ( Shari'a ) together with the monarchy authority of the Muslim rulers in the worldly affairs. Endorsed: Mohammad Bagher Majlesi, Mirza -ye Ghomi, Seyed Kashfi, Sheikh Nuri Fazlollah, Ayatollah Haeri Yazdi Abdulkarim.
  • General appointed authority of the jurists. Endorsed: Mullah Ahmad Naraghi, the Ayatollah Boroujerdi Husain, Mohammad Reza Golpayegani, Ruhollah Khomeini and Sheikh Mohammad Hassan Najafi before the Iranian Revolution.
  • General appointed authority of the Council of the source of emulation ( velayat -e faqih ). Endorsed: the Ayatollahs: Abdollah Javadi Amoli, Mohammad Beheshti, Taheri Khorram Abadi.
  • Absolute appointed power of attorney of the legal scholar ( Marja -e taqlid ). Endorsed: Ayatollah Khomeini after the Iranian Revolution.

And b ) five democratically, with divine legitimacy prone typologies:

  • Constitutional status quo, with the permission and supervision of jurisprudence. Endorsed: Esma'il Mahallati, the Ayatollahs: Mazandarani, Ali Tehrani, Tabataba'i, Khorasani, Na'ini
  • Popular leadership together with clerical supervision. Advocate: Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
  • Selected limited power of attorney of jurisprudence. Endorsed: Ayatollah Montazeri and Motahhari
  • Islamic selected status quo. Endorsed: Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
  • Collective government by Islamic scholars. Endorsed: Ayatollah Mehdi Yazdi Ha'eri
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