Document Type : Original Article

Author

• mehdi behniafar

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Allameh Tabatabai University

Abstract

This paper is a critical study on Armanshahr; based on Mortaza Motahari’s Views, a recently published book. Armanshahr in Persian means utopia. Dedicating to Motahari’s Islamic views on Utopia (Armanshahr), this book extracts and analyzes the outlines of Motahari’s views on Islamic Utopia. Before the critical study, we first have a descriptive review on this book. And, in critical phase, we have two steps. The first step studies and criticizes some statements of Armanshahr. In the second step we will evaluate the statements of Armanshahr that although the writer is right in expressing them, they have significant alternatives and rivals in Motahari’s views which the writer have not considered them.
After these two critical phases that concern the writer’s reading of Armanshahr, we have another critical discussion about the very Motahari’s views. In this final discussion, we have a critical study on Motahari’s understanding of Utopia in Islamic texts and heritage.

Keywords

• utopia
• Morteza Motahari
• desired future
• possible future
• historicity