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Khomeinism (also transliterated Khumaynism) refers to the religious and political ideas of the leader of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini. In addition, Khomeinism may also refer to the ideology of the clerical class which has ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran, founded by Khomeini. It can also be used to refer to the ...
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Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei [5] ( Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنهای, romanized :Ali Hoseyni Xāmene’i, pronounced [ʔæˈliː hosejˈniː xɒːmeneˈʔiː] ⓘ; born 19 April 1939) [14] [15] is an Iranian Twelver Shia marja' and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989.
A caliphate or khilāfah (Arabic: خِلَافَةْ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (/ ˈ k æ l ɪ f, ˈ k eɪ-/; Arabic: خَلِيفَةْ [xæ'liːfæh], pronunciation ⓘ), a person considered a political-religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of the entire Muslim world ().
Shia Islamism is the usage of Shia Islam in politics. Most study and reporting on Islamism has been focused on Sunni Islamist movements. [note 1] Shia Islamism, a previously very small ideology, was boosted after the Iranian Revolution led by Ruhollah Khomeini, whose Shia Islamist policies became known as Khomeinism.
The Houthi movement ( / ˈhuːθi /; Arabic: الحوثيون al-Ḥūthiyūn [al.ħuː.θi.juːn] ), officially known as Ansar Allah [a] ( أنصار الله ʾAnṣār Allāh, lit. 'Supporters of God ' ), is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaidi Shias ...
Khomeini and Guardianship of the Islamic jurist as Islamic government. Khomeini in the 1970s. In the 1960s, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the leading cleric fighting the monarch (Shah) of the secularist Pahlavi dynasty . In early 1970, when he was exiled to the holy Shia city of Najaf, he gave a series of lectures on how "Islamic Government ...
The Islamic Salvation Front ( Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, romanized : al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh; French: Front Islamique du Salut, FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two major leaders representing its two bases of its support; Abbassi Madani appealed to pious small businessmen ...
