Comparison of Imam Ali's views on democracy and religious democracy

Masoumeh AlSadat Hosseini Kalahroudi

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS3.8156

Authors

Masoumeh AlSadat Hosseini Kalahroudi
mas.Hosseini@alzahra.ac.ir
Department of Islamic Learning, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Keywords:

religious democracy, democracy, Imam Ali, government, social affairs

Abstract

To handle its affairs, each country needs to form a government because man is inherently social and needs a social life. There must be a government in place to lead the society and prevent chaos; in the meantime, a government that, in addition to legislating and executing laws, engages its people in their destiny, is either a democratic government or a religiously founded democratic government. This article aims to investigate two types of governments and their characteristics as well as democratic failures and to describe the differences between democracy and religious democracy. It also uses Imam Ali's perspectives to reveal whether a religious democracy or a democracy prevails in an Islamic political system.

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