Editing Ali Shariati (section)

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[[File:Ali Shariati stamp.jpg|thumb|1980 Iranian stamp honoring Shariati.]]
There are many adherents and opponents of Shariati's views, and Shariati's personality is largely unknown.{{clarify|date=May 2017}} [[Ali Khamenei]] knew Shariati as a pioneer of Islamic teaching according to the requirements of his generation. According to Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Shariati had both positive and negative characteristics. Khamenei believes that it is unfair to consider Shariati as someone who firmly disagreed with the Mullahs. One of the positive sides of Shariati was his ability to explain his thoughts with suitable and simple language for his generation. Shariati was somewhat supportive of Mullahs in Iran.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.farsnews.ir/newstext.php?nn=8903290362 |title=بازخواني مصاحبه رهبر معظم انقلاب درباره مرحوم شريعتي &#124; خبرگزاری فارس |access-date=8 January 2017 |archive-date=9 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109021220/http://www.farsnews.ir/newstext.php?nn=8903290362 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{clarify|date=May 2017}} Some Scholars like Elizabeth F. Thompson try to envisage some similarities between Shariati and his role in the Islamic revolution in Iran with [[Sayyid Qutb|Sayyed Qutb]]'s role in [[Egypt]]. One similarity is that both paved the way for the imminent revolution in their countries. Both desired Islamic cultural dominance. Both were fans of being revolutionary about ruling values and norms. They considered [[Islamism]] a third way between those of America and the Soviet Union. At the same time, they were not wholly utopian, and they were partly Islamic.{{clarify|date=May 2017}} Of course, there are differences between them, for example, Shariati was a leftist while Qutb was a conservative. According to [[Mahmoud Taleghani]], Shariati was a thinker who created a school for revolution. The school guided young people to revolutionary action. Beheshti believes that Shariati's work was fundamental to the Islamic revolution.<ref name="Ervand Abrahamian 1989 105"/>

According to Hamid Enayat, Shariati was not only a theorist but also an adherent of Islamic radicalism. Enayat believes that Shariati can be considered the founder of Islamic socialism. Enayat considers him one of the most beloved and popular individuals in Islamic radicalism and socialism.<ref>{{cite book |author=Hamid Enayat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TauRPwAACAAJ&q=hamid+enayat |title=Modern Islamic Political Thought |year=2008 |publisher=Acls History E Book Project |isbn=978-1597404600}}</ref>{{clarify|date=May 2017}}

According to [[Hamid Algar]], Shariati was the number one ideologue of the Islamic revolution.<ref name="Abdollah Vakili 1991 30–37">{{cite book |author=Abdollah Vakili |title=Ali shariati and the mystical tradition of islam |publisher=Institute of Islamic studies, Mc Gill University |year=1991 |pages=30–37}}</ref>