Morteza Motahari's sociological formulation of the characteristics of the Iranian revolution

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract
The following article seeks to look at Morteza Motahari's lectures on the understanding and analysis of the Islamic Revolution from the perspective of the attributes and characteristics of this revolution and present a sociological formulation of it; So that both the identity of this revolution is revealed and its distinguishing aspects compared to other revolutions. The opening of this issue will pave the way for religious theorizing about the Iranian revolution, and the planning and design of the movement path of the revolution will be in line with its original essence. So the question is, what sociological formulation of the characteristics of the Iranian revolution has been presented by Morteza Motahari? In this regard, qualitative content analysis method has been used for data collection and historical sociology method for data analysis. In the end, we achieved seven characteristics, which are: arising from the conscious action of revolutionary forces (arising from the structural/volitional duality), the boiling of divine self-awareness in the revolutionary forces (arising from the duality of materialism/semanticism), reliance on wide-ranging social mobilization (arising from minority/consensus duality), religious leadership arising from social choice (resulting from the mass/geometrical duality), the presence of the promoter of unseen aid (resulting from the duality of external causes/inner causes), challenging against the renewed authority (resulting from the duality of self-sufficiency/non-combat) and The origin of the birth of other revolutions (arising from the national/civilization duality).

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Available Online from 30 August 2025