The Roots of Cultural Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran: In the Speech of Three Scholars of Iran Islamic Revolution in 1979 (Shariati, Motahari and Fardid)

The present study aimed to identify the roots of cultural policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This article has used a thematic content analysis with a historical approach and a Content Coding Technique to review the works of three Islamic revolutionary scholars whose views have been frequently used as references to many cultural policy-makers before and after the revolution. The results indicated that the sharing feature of these three views, albeit from different ideas, is the two following lines Confrontation with Westernization and the Priority of Reform, and the Development of Thought and Culture. Another result is the influence of the document The Country’s Principles of Cultural Policy through the views from these scholars. At the end of this article, it is claimed that the Islamic Republic of Iran s cultural policies (elective and compound) are rooted in cultural theorists. It also claims that it cannot be accepted that the Islamic Republic of Iran, in its fortieth year, departed from the first designed artistic principles. It is a form of early thought that has been recognized and formed as usual.