Document Type : Scientific-Research

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PhD student in Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch

Abstract

This study's main issue is internal logic, attitude, and the mainstream of Iranian Sunni's currents to Salafism. The Islamic world has witnessed the formation of religious currents in various forms in which they are trying to give a unique interpretation. The Sunni's representative currents in Iran, which are generally classified in the range of political, religious, or both, don't have a long-term background in the contemporary Iranian era since opening the political sphere amid the Islamic revolution in 1979. meanwhile, they formed In the East and West of Iran and turned the socio-political activities. The main question of the current study is related to how Salafism's example could be explained among the main Sunni currents? The author has used the Methodology of Scientific Research Program (MSRP) as a method and has tried to study the Sunni's mainstream currents within Salafi Research Program. The research shows that Tablighi Jamm'at, Iranian Call and Reform Organization, and Maktab -e Quran as the mainstream of Sunni's current in Iran. They explained their political-religious point of view within the framework of the Salafism research program. However, it's significant to study the visions of preceding currents of Salafism as a means or source of identity to declare their existence in the socio-political sphere in Iran. Despite belonging to Salafism due to theoretical changes and being influenced by national and international conditions, they were far from the Hard Core of Salafism, which has essential components named identity absolutism, interpretationism, extremist reading of Towhid, Jihadism, Takfir, social dogmatism, and Idealism based on the policy of salvation. Instead, they have turned to a particular reading of Moderate Salafism.

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