Religion, diplomacy and identity. Some remarks on the ayatollah Khomeini’s letter to Gorbachev

• Authors: Marcin Rzepka
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The letter sent by Ayatollah Khomeini to Gorbachev seems to be important in modern Iranian historiography presenting Khomeini as an influential and prophet-like “father of the revolution”. The letter brings Khomeini’s personal insights into the situation of the Soviet Union offering to its leader Islam as the only solution for internal and external problems. The letter in fact may be consider an example or rather a product of Iranian political culture, an attempt to return to the global and finally as a Khomeini’s answer to history.

Keywords

PL

Khomeini; Iran; Gorbachev; Soviet Union; letter

EN

Khomeini; Iran; Gorbachev; Soviet Union; letter

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
• Journal: Orientalia Christiana Cracoviensia
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5

Dates

published

2013

online

2013-12-03

Contributors

author

Marcin Rzepka

Identifiers

DOI

10.15633/ochc.1034