Democracy in the Atitude And Conduct of Imam Ali

Document Type : Research Paper

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Abstract

Analysing two concepts of people's role and The duties of
Feligious democratic governmant from Imam Ali's perspective is
the aim of this article . In the introductory part, the author focuses
on people's role in a state from Imam Ali's point of view while he
is discussing political legitimacy.In this context, he has dealt with
issues such as; 1)people`s role in establishing religious state;
2)people`s role in on statemen in a religious state; 3)people`s role
in consulting leaders in a religious state; 4)people`s right in
questioning state and statemen; and 5) people`s duty in opposing
a state when it does not observes revealed laws. In second part of
the article, responsibilities of a democratic state, the author trys to
describe Imam Ali's view points of those issues.