![]() The small book (fewer than 150 pages) was smuggled into Iran and "widely distributed" to Khomeini supporters before the revolution. Notes of the lectures were soon made into a book that appeared under three different titles: The Islamic Government, Authority of the Jurist, and A Letter from Imam Musavi Kashef al-Qita (to deceive Iranian censors). While in exile in Iraq in the holy city of Najaf, Khomeini gave a series of 19 lectures on Islamic Government to a group of his students from January 21 to February 8, 1970. ![]() Ruhollah Khomeini, anti-secularist leader of Iranian revolution Following the Iranian Revolution, a modified form of this doctrine was incorporated into the 1979 Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran drafted by an assembly made up primarily by disciples of Khomeini, it stipulated he would be the first faqih "guardian" ( Vali-ye faqih) or " Supreme Leader" of Iran. The book argues that government should/must be run in accordance with traditional Islamic law ( sharia), and for this to happen a leading Islamic jurist ( faqīh) must provide political " guardianship" ( wilayat in Arabic, velāyat in Persian) over the people and nation. First published in 1970, it is perhaps the most influential document written in modern times in support of theocratic rule. ( Persian: حکومت اسلامی ولایت فقیه, Velayat-e faqih: Hokumat-i Eslami) is a book by the Iranian Shi'i Muslim cleric/jurist, and revolutionary, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. ![]() Islamic Government ( Persian: حکومت اسلامی, Hokumat-i Eslami), also known as The Jurist's Guardianship: Islamic Government,
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