The relationship between religion and politics; Islam and politics; Islamic political theology and ethics; stages of Shi'ite Islam and politics; Iran between two revolutions; political Islam; Khomeini's political thought; Iranian Constitution; tension between theocracy, secularism, and democracy; quasi-democracy and elections; expediency and secularization; civil and Islamic law; Muslim fundamentalists, traditionalists, and reformists; from competitive electoral to the non-competitive electoral authoritarian regime; women's rights; religious and ethnical minorities; foreign policy; revolutionary guards; Khomeini and Khamenei administrations; the future of Islamic republic of Iran.
