Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist

Glossary

• a school in a certain place elsewhere in the document source, it is acknowledged that no particular school among the various foreign-run schools in Iran can be identified.
• … as the Qur’an testifies at 4:67
• Commander of the Faithful leader of the Muslims
• desperate measures attempts by the Iranian embassy in Baghdad to prevent the dissemination of earlier versions of this document
• Imam Hasan and … Imam Baqir respectively, the second and fifth imams
• Most Noble Messenger the Prophet Muhammad
• mujtahids an Islamic legal authority whose opinions on a law's specific provisions are based on deductions from Muslim principles and ordinances
• These new groups European countries, beginning with the Portuguese in the mid-1500s, that colonized Muslim countries
• “xenomaniacs” English rendition of a Persian term designating persons excessively partial to the culture of foreign, especially Western, nations