A Study of the Methodological Framework of Political Kalām with an Emphasis on the View of Āyatollāh Khāmene’i

The Ijtihādi method which infers propositions of political Kalām from the texts and their references relies on the hypothesis that political Kalām as a branch in the science of Kalām, despite its various methods in interpretation and defense, lacks a methodological structure in production and inference of basic theories and issues. This fact has prevented the improvement of this science and its related subcategories like political Kalām. The idea of Āyatollāh Khāmene’i for the development of jurisprudential Ijtihad method to activate and update the science of Kalām proposed the hypothesis that the way for epistemological development of political Kalām, in accordance with the current questions, concerns, and doubts, is to renovate the inference method from the Qur’an. The best model experience in this method is the methodological knowledge of the existent jurisprudential principles along with the science of Fiqh. To substantiate this idea, an exploratory method similar to inquisition from texts was used. Through this method and some stages including gathering, manifestation, inference from appearances, and inquisition from the text, relevant concepts of basic inference are redefined and the science of principles as a review method presented a model entitled “inferential method”. By the renovation and rearrangement of relevant structures in the science of principles, the stages of inferencing propositions of political Kalām from the Qur’an were investigated in a procedural form. Conducting this method in a procedural and logical order determines the starting and ending direction of the Islamic final view in comprehensive thinking about political and theological issues.