Ummat magazine's approach to compiling economic principles The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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1 Ph.D

2 Professor

3 Assistant Professor

4 reasercher

10.30465/sehs.2025.49390.1995
Abstract
Abstract:

The review of the researches conducted in the field of the history of the drafting of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran shows the prominent role of justice-loving thoughts and tendencies in the writing of the economic-oriented principles of the Constitution. With the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, one of the most necessary things was determining the principles of the political system, the governing frameworks and the basic structures of the new system, including social, economic, political and cultural. Based on this, Imam Khomeini commissioned the provisional government to form the Constituent Assembly and lay the groundwork for drafting the constitution. After the drafting of the constitution, people, political parties and groups criticized it extensively by issuing statements and also preparing pamphlets and writing letters. Ummat magazine, based on the commonalities it had with the ruling Islamist groups, especially in the era before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, to stabilize the dominant Islamic discourse and to establish the main lines of Iran's economic system on the basis of three sectors: government, cooperative and private. Also, clarifying the ownership situation in the economic principles of the new constitution helped. The purpose of this article is to help to understand the discourse of Umm magazine and the extent of the influence of Umm magazine, the organ of the militant Muslim movement, on the drafting process and especially the approval of the economic principles of the constitution of the Islamic Republic. The research method in this article is using the discourse analysis method and the data collection tool is a library.



Keywords: Constitution, economic principles, ownership, militant Muslim movement, Ummat magazine.

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  • Receive Date 20 July 2024
  • Revise Date 02 November 2024
  • Accept Date 18 March 2025