Sovereignty and political legitimacy in the intellectual school of Akhund Khorasani
Subject Areas : History of Political Thought in Iran
1 - PH.d in Public Law, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Sharia Affairs, Akhund Khorasani, Limitation of Authorities, Customary Affairs, Rules of constitutional law,
Abstract :
Sovereignty, in the sense of legitimacy or justification of political power, is divided into three categories: divine, non-divine and divine-human according to its source. Akhund Khorasani, according to his first and foremost jurisprudential foundations, first considers absolute power to be exclusive to God's nature, and in two periods of his life, firstly, he dealt with the matters of hasba from the authority of the jurist, and in the period of his struggle for constitutionalism. , he knows about the authority of believers and then the president of the nation, and at this stage he leans towards the legitimacy of the political power of the president of the nation. He rejects the legitimacy of the legitimate monarchy and considers the infallible government to be only the legitimate government and all the governments of the age of occultation as unjust and by dividing them into just, such as the constitutional and coercive, the just government, such as the constitutional, is in charge of public affairs. If they are rational and religious, according to the clear ruling of reason and the eloquent texts of the Sharia, it considers the illegitimacy of Jabreh.
