The Muslim Revivalist Movements: The Role of Imam Khomeini in its Development and Continuity

Imam Khomeini has achieved successes in continuance of the movement of religious revivalism, that other Islamic reformists have achieved less. Imam Khomeini is one of significant revivalists who led the Islamic revolution in Iran and consequently brought about changes in Muslim society and civilization. In this article, distinctive features of Imam Khomeini’s revivalism will be examined.

Investigating the Rational Properties in the Exegesis Mysticism of Imam Khomeini (God bless him)

Imam stresses deep pondering in Holy Quran

Imam Khomeini has stressed that deep pondering in the teachings of the Holy Quran has been insisted in the teachings of this divine book.

Imam Khomeini stresses discovering the ultimate goal of God from Quranic verses.

It is worth-mentioning that on different occasions, Imam interpreted the Holy Imam Khomeini has considered interpretation as discovering the ultimate goal of God from Quranic verses.

Quranic interpretation that Imam Khomeini provides has multiple dimensions

The interpretation that Imam Khomeini provides has multiple perspectives including theosophical dimensions; however, because of Imam's complete mastery of different Islamic sciences, signs from other fields are quite traceable.

Imam maintained that Quranic verses are quite interwoven and interrelated

According to Imam Khomeini, the Holy Quran has not only a heart, but also many hearts and these hearts are quite interwoven and interrelated with the words of the Holy Quran.

Imam Khomeini stresses expressing the purposes of the verses of the Holy Quran

Imam Khomeini believed that no thorough and exhaustive interpretation of the Holy Quran is provided yet.

Imam Khomeini considers holy Quran as mirror of all divine names