The Semiotics of Citizenship Rights in Imam Khomeini's Thought

The present study aims to investigate the issue of citizenship rights in Imam Khomeini's thought and tries to analyze the conceptual indications of the rights of individuals as citizens of Islamic state in Imam Khomeini's intellectual system by using a semiotic approach. In this research semiotics has been used as a method of analysis and theoretical framework for discussion and some attempts have been made to use some of the methodological possibilities of the Izutsu model, especially the concept of "semantic fields". The results show that the term citizenship rights has not been used in the speeches and works of Imam Khomeini. This is a sign of the newness of this sign in the Islamic semantic system. In the area of the right to self-determination, it is the right to political participation that is challenging. Political participation in Islamic thought in the semantic field of religious duty makes sense, and every Muslim must work as hard as he can. Although the Islamic republic regime, formally and apparently resembles the conventional Republican systems, but it is a unique system in which citizenship has its own particularities, because it is based on Islamic law. These special coordinates well illustrate the semantic contradictions in the Muslim semantic system and the discourse of modern citizenship rights.