The Study of the Conception of Islamic Government in Political Thought of Seyed Ghotb
Mohammad Mahdi Saleh
Fahali Hemati
Abstract:
Islamic Scholars pay more attention to the elements such as human rights and women's rights of democracy in the globalization era. The democracy is socially, politically, economically and culturally is desir-able in the information era. Therefore, Islamic scholars have given more attention to sovereignty, legitimacy, women’s rights, and freedom of choice, citizen right and liberty. So, the understanding of influential thoughts of contemporary scholars is very important. The ideas of recent scholars stemmed from scholars such as Seyed Ghotb. Seyed Ghotb believed in Islamic government and the expansion of Islamic ideology and opposed following Western thoughts such as democracy in Islamic Government. Having a comprehensive attitude towards Islam, he believed that Islamic government exists in Islamic experience and Muslims don’t need Western ideas.
Key Words: Seyed Ghotb, Islamic Government, Democracy, West, Islamic Religion