Crystallization of seminary's independence on Ayatollah Golpayegani's activism in the Pahlavi government

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1 PHD student of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution Research Institute

2 Assistant Professor of the History Department of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution Research Institute

3 Member of the academic faculty/Imam Khomeini International University.

10.30465/hcs.2024.46602.2852

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Abstract:

Ayatollah Golpayegani's opposition along with other imitation references to land reforms, state-provincial association bill, and White Revolution Referendum, made Pahlavi government aiming at targeting the independence of the seminary, seeks to weaken the seminary and the clergy. The violent attack on the Faiziyah in Nowruz 1342 was the beginning of the actions and programs that government followed in the feature months and years to weaken the power of the clerical institution in opposition to its plans and programs by eliminating seminary's independence. By the government's interference in the seminary's affairs, Ayatollah Golpayegani, who had not forgotten the difficult days of the seminary in the Reza Shah era, with taking a critical and at the same time cautious approach, became an activist person to take care of seminary so that its independence would not be damaged.

Based on the structure-agent theory, this article seeks to answer the question, how did the seminary's independence belief influence Ayatollah Golpayegani's activism against the Pahlavi government's interferences in the seminary's affairs? The important achievement of this article can be seen in the fact that the belief of the seminary's independence was an important factor in Ayatollah Golpayegani's activism against the interventionist actions of the Pahlavi government in the seminary. The purpose of this activism was to maintain the seminary's independence, so that seminary can train missionaries outside the sphere of influence and power of the government so to barrier the loss of the legacy that his predecessors had worked hard for it.

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