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The victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran has infused a fresh flood into the body of the Muslim community and has bestowed a new life upon the world of Islam. Today, the revival of Islam has become the most controversial and considerable issue in



























the world politics, so that a major part of the world politics literatures, specially in the West, are about the contemporary Islamic revivalism.
Thinkers and scholars in the field of world politics have viewed this development from different perspectives and offered numerous and conflicting theories in this regand. One of the most
important and discussable of these theories, which directly concerned with the current Islamic revivalism, is Samuel Hunting
ton's theory of liThe clash of civilizations?1I in which the Islamic civilization has been introduced as one of the main actors of world
politics and the most serious threat to the Western civilization in the decade ahead.

My hypotesis in this paper is that the fundamental and the



primary source of Huntington's theory is none, but Islam itself which has revived as a global force in Muslim societies and has decisively challenged Western attitudes and values, liberal democracy and the worldly civilization of the west as a whole.