Islamic Politics Research

Islamic Politics Research

Comparative Study of Shiite Theory of Apocalypse with Liberalism Theory of the "End of History"

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Assistant Professor of Political Science Department, Imam Sadiq Research Institute for Islamic Sciences-
Abstract
By presenting thetheory of"the end of liberalismhistory", Francis Fukuyama (American-Japanese thinker) revived the issuesof political philosophy of history again. He claimsthatliberaldemocracy isthe last school and politicalsystem ofthe history. Fukuyama, based on Hegel’s theory interpreted by Alexander Kojeve, introduces "liberal democracy" as the end point of human ideological evolution, the final form of human government and the end of history. On the other hand, the twelve-Imam Shia has its own theory about the "Apocalypse" and unlike Fukuyama, introduces "pure Muhammadan Islam" and "Imam Mahdi’s government" as the last ideology and government of the history. Now, regarding these two theories and the soft war between Islam and Liberalism to win the future specially after the decline of the Soviet Union, this question arises that in comparing two theories of Shiite Apocalypse andLiberalism end of history, which one is better? Research methodinthispaper is "comparative study".Comparative studies commonly include three processes of description, comparisonand  conclusion. The author’s hypothesis in this study is superiority of Shiite-apocalypse theory. Therefore the rival hypothesis which prefers liberal democracy is rejected.
Keywords

.Fukoyama, Francis (1992). The End of History and The Last Man, New York, Free Press

  • Receive Date 04 May 2012
  • Revise Date 08 June 2012
  • Accept Date 14 August 2012