Free Thinking in Islamic Revolution Discourse

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The present study deals with the role and the position of free thinking in the Islamic revolution discourse in Iran. In fact, as a macro discourse with its special readings and interpretations of radical concepts such as politics, ideology, freedom and justice, the political Islam builds a discourse as Islamic Revolution which attached hegemonic position upon victory of the Islamic Revolution and establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Islamic Revolution of Iran discourse by categorizing its discourse elements and details for floating suggestive such as freedom, science and knowledge, provides content that demonstrate its discourse differentiation with the modernity discourse. Such discourse also creates and categorizes suggestive such as the science production movement, software movement, free thinking and Islamic culture in the university environment to create the concept of Islamic University. Hence this research benefits from the discourse analysis method to investigate the concept of free thinking in the discourse of Islamic revolution and its relationship with university and from the other side illustrates the grounds of difference of this discourse with the modernity discourse.
 

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