Religious democracy in the Islamic Republic system or theodemocracy مقاله

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Keywords: Democracy, people’s government, rule based on majority vote, theocracy, government of God, rule of religion, autocracy, despotic government, clericalism, aristocracy, humanism, elitism (*)Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran The victory of the Islamic Revolution on February 11, 1979, which was based on the three principles of Islamic values, popular uprising, and the leadership of the Marja' Taqlid (religious authorities) of Shia Muslims, as well as the establishment of the Islamic Republic system based on these same three pillars, led to numerous discussions in the realm of thought and opinion, especially in the field of classifying governments and political systems around the world. On the one hand, considering that in the West, popular governments were seen as replacing theocratic governments, and from the perspective of Western thinkers, combining the two – theocracy and democracy – seemed impossible, and on the other hand, with regard to the undeniable and simultaneous role of religion and the people in the fall of the autocratic Pahlavi regime and the establishment and continuation of the Islamic Republic system, scholars faced a kind of contradiction and conflict.