The Proportion of Islam and Politics: A Fuzzy Logic Approach

• Main Authors: Mahdi Qavami‐Pur, Mohammad Ali Hosseini‐Zade
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Qom Islamic Azad University 2014-12-01
• Series: سپهر سیاست
• Subjects: political islam; fuzzy logic; political affairs
• Online Access: http://se.journal.qom-iau.ac.ir/article_540965_7acbac31a93035ba1c90cf07730840a9.pdf

Whereas one group of researchers think of Islam as inherently political <br />in their investigating the proportion of Islam to politics, the other <br />group thinks of the political reading of Islam as a new phenomenon <br />that has resulted from the contact between Islamic world and the <br />West  and  modernity.  Either  has  presented  many  proofs  and <br />documents, and so far none of them has succeeded in convincing the <br />other.  However,  based  on  the  fuzzy  logic,  which  shows  that  any <br />proposition can be either true or false, it can be said that while facing <br />politics and power, Islam has invariably taken a position given its own <br />position, and in fact the position has been with particular political <br />proportion. On the other hand, although the political Islam has been <br />conceptually  unprecedented,  it  is  not  disproportionate  to  Islam. <br />More importantly, by using a fuzzy set, it can be seen that scholars <br />and religious authorities have always been political to some extent <br />during the Occultation, and the avoidance of politics under the title <br />of dissimulation, stopping the enforcement of religious punishments <br />during  the  Occultation  according  to  some  religious  scholars’ <br />jurisprudential  opinion,  or  the  establishment  of  the  Islamic <br />Government with jurists’ guardianship and their governance over all <br />pillars of power, all constitute the zero and one of our fuzzy set, <br />which have the least membership in the fuzzy set, and most scholars, <br />authorities and Shiite thoughts fall within zero and one. <br />