Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

This paper seeks to criticize a method of the West that can be called "cultural West". The nature of the issue and the fact that Iran, perhaps more than any other country in the international system, has been exposed to conflict with the cultural West, among the various philosophical, jurisprudential, sociological, cultural and similar approaches that can be discussed, the cultural approach has priority that creates defensible logic. Considering this importance, Imam Khomeini's statements have a special focus on this respect. His experience regarding the direct and undesirable presence of the West in Iran during the first and second world wars and the Western puppet system (first and second Pahlavi) and life in the West or where the Western culture has a wide influence there, provided an analytical and experience-oriented origin for the discussion. To achieve the goal, this paper has used the "ground" method. Focusing on cultural issues and topics, his views have been extracted and analyzed from the book "Sahifeh Imam". The results show that Imam Khomeini considers the cultural West to have two approaches; the aggressive procedure that is more known to the East and the cultural procedure that has extremely anti-human consequences and can challenge humanity if not countered.