The Muslim Revivalist Movements: The Role of Imam Khomeini in its Development and Continuity

Imam Khomeini has achieved successes in continuance of the movement of religious revivalism, that other Islamic reformists have achieved less. Imam Khomeini is one of significant revivalists who led the Islamic revolution in Iran and consequently brought about changes in Muslim society and civilization. In this article, distinctive features of Imam Khomeini’s revivalism will be examined.

Imam Khomeini was leader of great character

Mohammed Mehdi, head of the American Western Relations Committee

Imam's letter to the Soviet Union leader contained much wisdom and sound advice

Imam Khomeini then suggested that, if Mikhail Gorbachev desired to become more familiar with Islamic concepts, the Soviet leader should command his scholars to study the philosophical works of al-Farabi, Avicenna, Sohravardi and Mullah Sadra to become familiar with the “nature of knowledge” which is different from the “nature of matter.”

Imam Khomeini’s fight against colonialism centered around Palestine: Academic

Imam Khomeini was a combination of a “rare and remarkable individual” who combined a “deep insight into human conditions” with “larger ideas about how to organize society”, says an analyst.

Imam Khomeini: The man who changed my world and of many others

Imam restored true status and role of religion worldwide

Seyyed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of Imam has said that the late founder of the Islamic Republic has restored the true status of religion in human society.

Imam called on Gorbachev to study Islam earnestly

After mentioning these problems and preliminary points, let me call on you to study Islam earnestly, not because Islam and the Muslims may need you but because Islam has exalted universal values which can bring comfort and salvation to all nations and remove the basic problems of mankind, Imam Khomeini wrote in a historic letter to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Imam Khomeini invited Gorbachev to embrace Islam in 1989 letter

Two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, its leader Mikhail Gorbachev would receive a letter from the Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic of Iran, inviting him to embrace Islam. In the letter Imam said that your main problem is the prolonged and futile war you have waged against God, the source of existence and creation.