Political Tolerance on the Main Framework of Islamic Political Philosophy

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Ph. D Candidate of Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute

Abstract

The social thinkers have been constantly looking for the identification of elements in order to decrease the challenges present in the societies and manage it in the favorable way. The Political Islamic philosophers, relying on their meticulous analysis related to the self of human have deemed institutionalization of elements like patience and tolerance in the social interactions as the main elements of decreasing and controlling the level of dealing with or struggling among groups and castes as well as the people in community. This research is to answer the question that: in view of Islamic political philosophy ,which strategies, how and on which base the element of political tolerance can manage the interactions between government and nation as well as people, parties, groups , formal and informal organizations in the favorable way and avoid any violent behaviors. The article tries to present an exact illustration of the position and role of this element in the social-political engineering via the descriptive-analytical method along with the analysis of viewpoints of Islamic political philosophers. The objective of this article is proving this issue that the political tolerance in the Islamic political philosophy is considered as the main element towards the realization of ideal city and the optimal political-social management. This very issue has made the Islamic political philosophers to call the elites, managers of community and mass of people for considering tolerance in the reciprocal relationships to present the strategies like strengthening ethical and belief foundations, as well as the institutionalization of rationality in the social relationships towards the stabilizing and deepening of tolerance in regard with the relationships and social interactions

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