THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE SHIITE POLITICAL FIGH FROM THE MASHROOTE MOVEMENT TO THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION

From the Mashrooté movement onward, a new discourse
in the Shiite political Fiqh took over which implied that the
responsibilities for Faqihs to rule over the Islamic society is
not suspended during the Period of Absence. As a result,
the discourse of "the suspension of ruling during the Period
of Absence" was discarded. This discursive change in the
Shiite political Fiqh was the result of the formation of a new
form of Ijtihad in the Shiite political Fiqh, which dominated
the Shiite scientific atomsphere. The extension of researches
within the framework of Ilm Al-Qsul, the impact of the
school of thought of Mullah Sadra, the improvement in the
social status of Faqihs, and the inadequacy of despotic
systems of ruling are the main causes of the formation of
this new discourse.