Ilamism In The Iranian Revolution

Islamism has been debated largely and widely in the academic and public arenas. The term Islamism can refer to the various forms of political and social activism that advocate for the private and public lives that are guided by the Islamic principles. More specifically, Islamism refers to the movements that are implemented through the Sharia laws (Davidson, 2013). The term Islamism is interchangeably used with the Islamic fundamentalism and political Islam terms. The western media uses the term to refer to the groups that aim to develop groups whose aim is to establish Islam states that are Sharia based. The western media usually associate the Islam states with human rights violations and violent tactics. The term has therefore been associated with political activism. Since the modern states gained

The Iranian revolution is also known as the Islamic revolution and can also be referred to as the 1979 revolution. The revolution takes into account the events that took place during the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under the leadership of Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi who the United States supported (Vekovic, 2017). The Shah’s leadership was later followed by the eventual replacement of twenty-five years of Iranian monarchy with an Islamic Republic regime that was ruled by Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The leader of the revolution was supported by many Islamist organizations and leftist and student movements. The demonstrations that took place against \shah started in October 1877, and they developed into a campaign that was characterized by the civil resistance that included both the religious and secular elements. Since the Iranian revolution that took place in 1979, the Islamic fundamentalism has been displayed as a serious challenge to the established western oriented order in many of the secular Muslim countries and to the west itself (Vekovic,