Theoretical foundations of Imam Khomeini's monotheistic political discourse

The political is a discursive matter that seeks to construct a unique discursive identity with self-constructive and other-constructive components and with negations and propositions. The present study, by referring to the works, scientific and practical life, and institutional beliefs of Imam Khomeini, as well as her coexistence, empathy, and living with ontological and epistemological and consequently anthropological concepts and what has been obtained from her works, has addressed the monotheistic nature of Imam Khomeini's political discourse by using a descriptive-analytical method within the framework of discourse theory. The findings of the research are based on the assumption that Imam Khomeini's political discourse is organized around the central signifier of monotheism and is formed in a system of negations and affirmations and a list of subsidiary and floating signifiers such as ontology, epistemology, anthropology, and categories such as independence, freedom, and justice. In linking and articulating these signifiers with the central signifier of monotheism, it provides a system of internal and external semantic networks. By examining the identity boundaries of this discourse versus the competing discourse, antagonistic dualities emerge that are neither recoverable nor resolvable, such as "Monotheism versus polytheism," "Truth versus Falsehood," and "Wilayat Allah versus Wilayah Taghut."