ABSTRACT
Faced with the onslaught of European secular ideas of state and government, Sayyid Mahmud Taleqani argued, anticipating his contribution to the making of "the Islamic Ideology," Muslim intellectuals have either abandoned their faith altogether and assumed the ideological posture of their choice, or else they have sought to assimilate their ideological preference with a notion of Islam they develop personally. The nature of many Qur'anic passages is such that their universality of discourse and delivery yields easily to multiple historical interpretations. And there precisely lies the power of an exclusive revolutionary reinterpretation of faith. On the whole, Taleqani retains a highly exegetical language in his pre-Revolutionary interpretation of the Qur'anic passages, leaving much of his ideological message and agenda, though explicit, between the lines. Marxists are misguided souls who are either direct agents of colonial powers or else manipulated by them.
