{"id":3382,"date":"2017-08-05T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T12:34:14","slug":"banning-and-collecting-khomeinis-treatise-in-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/monitoring-and-translation\/reports\/banning-and-collecting-khomeinis-treatise-in-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning and collecting Khomeini\u2019s treatise in Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Radio Farda and RFE\/RL\u2019s Tajik Services, distribution of books of Khomeini, founder of Iranian Republic, has been banned In Tajikistan and these books have been collected. <\/strong>
\nIn an interview, Mahtab Vahidirad of Radio Farda has asked Mumin Ahmadi, reporter of RFE\/RL\u2019s Tajik Services, about details of the news:
\nMumin Ahmadi:<\/strong><\/span> In Tajikistan, there is an institute called \u201cCommittee of Religious Affairs and Regulation of National Traditions and Rituals\u201d. Each year, this committee prepares a list of banned books in Tajikistan. Importing these books is banned, and people are not allowed to study them. Recently, we have been informed that Khomeini\u2019s treatise on \u201cFiqh\u201d [Jurisprudence] has been put on this list. Moreover, Tajikistan officials have said that these books must be collected from Iranian Republic\u2019s Cultural Consultation Centers in three cities of Tajikistan and the library of Khomeini Relief Committee.
\nMahtab Vahidirad:<\/span><\/strong> Ahmadi, what are the reasons for collecting Khomeini\u2019s treatise in Tajikistan?
\nMumin Ahmadi:<\/strong><\/span> The officials have not openly given any explanations in this regard, because, as they say, they don\u2019t want to add fuel to differences that already exist between Iran\u2019s government and Tajikistan. However, they have unofficially said that this is because the treatise of Khomeini is not compatible with Tajikistan\u2019s official doctrine, the \u201cHanafi\u201d, and would confuse the reader since it contradicts with his beliefs.
\nMahtab Vahidirad:<\/span><\/strong> How was the reception of Khomeini\u2019s treatise in Tajikistan? And how will people react to collecting these books?
\nMumin Ahmadi:<\/span><\/strong> These books by Khomeini, I think, were very few. They were only available only in Cultural Consultation Centers with open libraries that would freely suggest books to people.
\nI don\u2019t think there were many of them available there. But, the main point is that nobody can import these books to Tajikistan and recommend them to people. I think people were not aware of these books, and they were recommended only to a small circle of researchers that could have accessed them in Cultural Consultation Centers and studied them.
\nMahtab Vahidirad:<\/span><\/strong> The news revealed that Cultural Consultation Centers have been closed in different parts of Tajikistan. Is that true? If so, why?
\nMumin Ahmadi:<\/span><\/strong> Yes. The Iranian embassy in Tajikistan said it was Iran\u2019s decision to close these centers. Tajikistan\u2019s Ministry of Justice that gives permits for activities of foreign organizations in the country said that Khomeini Relief Committee and other institutes affiliated to Iran \u2013 of course, it did not specifically mention Cultural Consultation Centers \u2013have a problem with their licenses, and that is why they temporarily do not have permission to work until they fix their legal status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Radio Farda and RFE\/RL\u2019s Tajik Services, distribution of books of Khomeini, founder of Iranian Republic, has been banned In Tajikistan and these books have been collected. In an interview, Mahtab Vahidirad of Radio Farda has asked Mumin Ahmadi, reporter of RFE\/RL\u2019s Tajik Services, about details of the news: Mumin Ahmadi: In Tajikistan, there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52,42,1296,2015,12,1091,102,2016,2012,361,2014,73,2013,2011,172,28],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-52","tag-agcis","tag-arabian-gulf-center-for-iranian-studies","tag-hanafi","tag-iran","tag-iranian-republic","tag-khomeini","tag-khomeini-relief-committee","tag-mahtab-vahidirad","tag-media","tag-mumin-ahmadi","tag-press","tag-radio-farda","tag-tajik","tag-tajikistan","tag-tehran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}