Comments on Mansoureh Tajik’s Articles (2020) "Understanding the Concepts of Imamat and Wilayat in Shi'a Islam"

By Razie Mah

Mansoureh Tajik is a Shi'a Muslim Twelve-Imami and a believer in Iran's current system of governance. In October 2020, the Saker website courageously posts his articles. In doing so, the Saker serves as a witness.
These comments consider only the first three articles. The first article is titled, "Understanding the Concepts of Imamat and Wilayat in Shi'a Islam: Iranian Revolution and Constitution, Part 1". The second article and third articles are "A Delegated System of Governance: Understanding the Concepts of Imamat and Wilayat in Shi'a Islam, Part 2 and Part 3". The third article finishes with a promise of more to come.
Despite this promise, these articles compose a cohesive critique, told through intertwining narratives.
Tajik describes the conditions which give rise to the Iranian revolt in 1979. In America, these same conditions ripen into Big Government (il)Liberalism and trigger the unanticipated election of a politically incorrect candidate, in 2016.
Persia turns away from her destiny as a satellite of the American Empire and sets upon a path to a form of governance that expresses the same relational structure as BG(il)L, but fills that relational structure with vastly different elements.
Is that surprising?
This same relational structure may be involved in a far deeper turning away, taking place over a thousand years ago. It is hard to say, but the suggestion cannot be denied. A foundational split occurs upon the death of Mohammed and its trace is found in the content-level normal context and potential in the interscope for the Iranian Republic. The content-level normal context and potential for American Big Government (il)Liberalism suggests how this historic trace may have come to be. A comparison of the two interscopes is instructive.
The associations in this commentary allows the reader to imagine a mystery, intrinsic to Mansoureh Tajik's discussion, yet invisible without the category-based nested form.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Razie Mah
• Release date: Nov 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781942824947

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Comments on Mansoureh Tajik's Articles (2020) Understanding the Concepts of Imamat and Wilayat in Shi'a Islam

By Razie Mah

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2020

Notes on Text

This work comments on three articles published on the Saker website. The author, Mansoureh Tajik is a Shi'a Twelve Imami. He discusses two key terms in governance for the Islamic Republic of Iran. My goal is to comment on this work using the category-based nested form and the dyadic structure of secondness. These arise within the philosophical tradition of Charles Peirce. This work, along with those in the recommended readings, are necessarily speculative, since the method is synthetic. Associations are followed by a contemplation of the implications.

‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

Prerequisites: A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

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Table of Contents

The Fourth Political Theory

The First Movement

Islamic is an adjective. Republic is a noun.

The Second Movement

The Third Movement

A Reflection After Three Movements

The Fourth Political Theory

0001 I do not know whether Mansoureh Tajik knows of the Russian political philosopher, Alexander Dugin. He writes as if he does.

Alexander Dugin claims that the three political theories of the West, liberalism, fascism and communism, have failed. He concludes that we now search for a fourth political theory. Perhaps, this fourth theory will take from what is best of the three earlier failures. More likely, the fourth political theory will well up like an artesian spring in the desert left