Abstract

Following the decline of the bipolar order and the persistence of Western hegemony in new colonial forms, the Islamic Revolution, by introducing the "third model of woman," opened a civilizational path for women's social agency. Adopting a civilizational perspective and focusing on the Third Imposed War as a site of civilizational contestation, this research seeks to delineate the dimensions of Iranian women's agency as the driving force of this model. The methodology is qualitative, based on discourse analysis of Imam Khamenei's directives and analytical field observation of women's performative roles in forbearance and resistance, Presence in the streets, and soft-war officership. Findings show that in this asymmetrical warfare, Iranian women, through synthesizing motherhood, social resilience, and the jihad of clarification, have generated novel civilizational functions and introduced an innovative mode of struggle against the hegemonic order. It is concluded that this multi-dimensional agency concretely embodies the architects of the new Iran and reveals the socio-political maturity of the woman aligned with the Islamic Revolution within the grand project of Islamic civilization.

Keywords: Islamic civilization, society‑building, Third Imposed War, Muslim Iranian woman