The Role of Imam Khomeini (ra)’s thinking in Formation of the Islamic Republic Discourse

Abstract

Nowadays, one of the very important issues is peace in the international arena. This type of thinking is derived from personality and identity of one nation and its leader. Imam Khomeini (ra) as one of the leaders affecting area of discourse-making in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been favored by the world people. He has dealt with explication of his speech and thought taken from the holy Quran and Sunna considering the introduction of such discourse. Based on a central denotation named ummah and eight floating denotations of which peace is one of the most important denotations, he has taken discourse into account. This article descriptively-analytically explores the issue that what role thinking of Imam Khomeini (ra) played in discourse of the Islamic Republic of Iran and what is floating denotation of peace in this discourse?

Keywords

• central and floating denotations
• discourse
• identity
• peace