AHMAD BEYDOUN - Shiism and d mocratie

Powers n 104 - Islam and d mocratie - January, 2003 - p.33-43

Shiism shares the feeling of faintness qu prove religious doctrines of Power facing the principle d mocratique of souverainet popular. To be able the time temporal and spiritual, l imamat is there by divine right. As by contagion, pr rogatives of l imam strives to pass for the faq h, expert (and security guard?) of divine Law. Also, notion of wilayat al-faq h has Iranian t rig e in constitutional foundation of l current r gime. However, instead of serving this transfer of foundation of l gitimit in fuqah , the ghayba (l eclipsing of the 12th imam) can tre bloody idiot ue as a delaying spiritual break the communaut enti re the Responsabilit of his own destiny es Finally, the fact that the Shiites never find themselves the only in the modern world, should favour l idem e d a compromise s culariste and d mocratique. Abstract

R fr rence lectonique: AHMAD BEYDOUN, "Shiism and d mocratie", Powers, seen again fran aise d 2003 tudes constitutional and political, n 104, p.33-43. Consult 01-03-2010. URL: /Chiisme-et-democratie.html