A Jurisprudential Survey of Islamic Government’s Confrontation with Security Threats in Cultural Arena

Abstract

Though threats against governments have often been of hardware nature aimed at changing the political structure, due to the enemy's awareness of the importance of culture, the software aspect of the threats has increasingly brought into focus. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, attacks on Islamic culture have systematically taken place and threats against the cultural foundations of Islam have been made to undermine the rule of Islam in society. Despite the fact that some Islamic injunctions like enjoining virtues and forbidding vices can play a big role in safeguarding the Islamic culture, due to the organized nature of most cultural attackers’ endeavors, a serious reaction against them can only be produced with the state support and might that will monitor and eradicate their unfavorable effects. The author, being aware of the significance of the issue of cultural security and indicators of facing cultural threats, has done an interdisciplinary and analytical-documentary research based on library information, reviewing the jurisprudential sources and narrative and intellectual arguments and re-reading Hasbah group models, and has formed the opinion that just as the Islamic State has a cohesive organization called the Intelligence Security Service to deal with hardware threats, it must also organize a state body specialized in tackling the ones happening in the cultural arena.

Keywords

• security threat
• culture
• enjoining virtues
• forbidding vices
• government entity