Accommodation, Competition and Conflict: Sectarian Identity in Pakistan

Khan, Saleem Akhtar

doi:10.5040/9780755624676.ch-005

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“…Giving the title to Khamenei thus gives him (along with his predecessor Khomeini) the highest possible rank in present-day Islam. As Khan (2007: 64) puts it, Imam is the highest honorific rank bestowed upon ‘divinely inspired scholars and saints, ranking below only the Prophet himself in the Shia religious hierarchy’.…”

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The discursive representation of Iran’s supreme leader in online media

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May

2013

Discourse & Society

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This study examines the interplay of politics, religion and discourse in the representation of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, in government-controlled news websites in Iran. It is grounded in critical discourse analysis (CDA), and Van Leeuwen’s social actor network model (2008) is used as the theoretical framework to analyse the linguistic representation of the Iranian leader. In the samples analysed, Khamenei is discursively depicted by features associated with the Prophet Muhammad and the 12 infallible Imams of the Shia tradition. Such representations elevate the authority of Khamenei in texts, and naturalise the ideology of Velayat-e Faqih, which authorises a Faqih (Jurist) to assume political leadership in Iran. In this way, the texts are used to maintain and reinforce the dominance of people in positions of power.

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Section: Representations Of Khamenei As Social Actormentioning

confidence: 99%