Political quietism

Political quietism or quietistischer Islam (from Latin quietus, " quiet ", " quiet " ) describes those flow of the Islamic clergy, especially the Shia, which rejects the active participation of the clergy in politics. The quietism sees the role of the clergy in the political leadership advisory role, rather than in the acquisition of leadership positions. Although the representatives of political quietism believes an Islamic state can only arise with the reappearance of the 12th Imam, they advocate for this reason no separation of religion and state (see secularism ). Rather, the political leadership has to align with their actions in Islam.

Representative

Leading representatives of the movement are the last widely recognized Marja -e taqlid, 1961 late Grand Ayatollah Boroujerdi Husain and the present Grand Ayatollah of Iraq, Ali Sistani. 1949, after the assassination of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and after Boroujerdi as absolute instance (or: source of emulation ) had been recognized by all the Shia United ayatollahs, he convened more than 2,000 religious scholars at a congress in Qom to where the quietist tradition the Shiite clergy to call for and renew. Boroujerdi asked his students Khomeini political restraint.

Marginality

After Boroudscherdis death lost the quietist position in favor of the propagated by Ayatollah Khomeini Islamic State in which the clergy is attributed to the active political leadership, influence. The counter-position to the quietist Islam is referred to by the controversial Orientalist Bernard Lewis as activist Islam ( Islam activist ).

Outside of Iran

The separation of the spiritual from secular domination is realized in the Turkish Constitution of 1924 of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk most, in Saudi Arabia, however, the Koran is regarded as constitutional.

Quote

Husayn Boroujerdi is attributed the following quote on the occasion of the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953: