Word: islam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citation also lauded Schimmel's numerous translations and published studies in Islamic poetry and religion. Her most recent work is "As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam," published last year...
...post-Shah era, the Mujahedin wasted no time demanding a program of change that sharply contradicted Khomeini's avowed views and intentions. The monarchy was still in its death throes when the single most vital issue of the revolution surfaced: the battle between two Islams, the Islam of progress vs. the Islam of backwardness, the Islam of freedom and human dignity vs. the Islam of torture and tyranny, the Islam of social justice vs. the Islam of a privileged, ruling priestly class...
...epithet dreamed up by the Shah and later propagated by Khomeini and company. To answer your question, we must first establish what Marxism is. If it is dialectic materialism and historical determinism and, by later additions, the dictatorship of the proletariat, it is certainly not the Mujahedin's Islam. If dedication to social justice is Marxism, then the Mujahedin are Marxists. If opposition to class privilege and exploitation is Marxism, then the Mujahedin are Marxists. Of course, in this case, you have to say that Moses, Jesus Christ and Muhammad were Marxists...
...Critics of Islam as an ideology of government say it is intolerant and will reduce non-Muslims to second-class citizenship...
...This is Khomeini's Islam. Ours says that all power comes from the people, no matter what their religion...