نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية
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أستاذ مشارك في المعهد العالي للعلوم والثقافة الإسلامية.
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عنوان المقالة [English]
المؤلف [English]
The question of how to recognize "the West" and determine the logic of interaction or confrontation with it is one of the fundamental challenges of civilizational thought in the Islamic world. Common approaches, whether in the field of modern studies or the critique of modernity, often rely on Western sources and epistemological frameworks, and have failed to meet the practical and identity needs of Islamic societies in their engagement with the West. This study aims to fill this theoretical gap by exploring the possibility of grounding the Islamic world's civilizational encounter on an independent literature arising from religious sources. The main argument of the article is that Ayatollah Khamenei's intellectual system presents a coherent knowledge framework under the title of "Qur'an-based Westology," which, by moving beyond one-dimensional and sometimes reductionist Westologies, analyzes the West not merely as modernity but as a civilizational structure with specific theological roots.
This research, through an analytical-discursive approach and with a focus on the connection between Quranic themes and the lived historical experience of the Islamic Revolution, elucidates this methodology. Ayatollah Khamenei's methodology in this framework rests on three pillars: "studying Western works and translations", "direct political and empirical experience from the West", and then "Quran-based enemy-studies". In this approach, the nature of the West is explained through Quranic concepts such as "oppression", "tyranny", "devil", and "devilish rule" (with an emphasis on the philosophical and ontological nature of the devil), where its prominent symbol in contemporary times is the American system and the characteristics of "arrogance, greed, and deception" in material civilization. The findings show that this cognitive pattern elevates moral values such as dignity, piety, and resistance from the level of abstract concepts to the level of operational strategies in foreign policy. In conclusion, the article concludes that the transition from a reactive to an active historical status in the Islamic world requires adopting an authentic approach that, while utilizing scientific achievements of the West, relies on "Quranic authenticity" and draws clear lines with its oppressive nature, thus outlining new and independent civilizational horizons.
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