Islam and Revolution ( fa, اسلام و انقلاب) is a two volume set of writings by Ayatollah/Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, which contain a collection of his speeches and writings.

Islam and Revolution I: Writings and Declarations

The first volume covers the years 1941 to 1980, and was compiled and translated from Persian by

Hamid Algar Hamid Algar (born 1940) is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He writes on Persian and Arabic literature and contemporary history of Iran, Turkey, the ...

. Pages 25 to 166 are devoted to

Islamic Government ''Islamic Government'' ( fa, حکومت اسلامی, ''Hokumat-i Eslami''), also known as ''The Jurist's Guardianship: Islamic Government'', ( fa, حکومت اسلامی ولایت فقیه, ''Velayat-e faqih: Hokumat-i Eslami '') Abrahamian, ...

(''Hokumat-e Islami: Velayat-e faqih''), Khomeini's treatise on how government should be run in accordance with traditional Islamic sharia, and that this will require a leading Islamic jurist ( faqih) to provide political "guardianship" (''wilayat or velayat'') over the people. The book also contains Lectures on "the Supreme Jihad" and Surat al-Fatiha, and speeches and declarations. Khomeini's writings reflect a belief in a

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, in which the government should be dictated by Islam. He believes that outside " imperialists"

...regarded it necessary to work for the extirpation of Islam in order to attain their ultimate goals.

He discusses how Iran's constitution was influenced by Belgian, French, and British

legal code A code of law, also called a law code or legal code, is a systematic collection of statutes. It is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the cod ...

s in order to deceive the people and keep them from their Islamic faith. He contends that Islam has all the answers to society, economy, law, politics, and the metaphysical. Khomeini writes:

There is not a single topic in human life for which Islam has not provided instruction and established a norm.

Islam and Revolution II

The second volume containing writings from 1980 to 1989, the year of Khomeini's death, remains unpublished.

References

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