Velayat-e faqih (Persian: ولایت فقیه‎‎, velāyat-e faqīh), also known as Islamic Government (Persian: حکومت اسلامی‎‎, Hokumat-i Eslami), is a book by the Iranian Muslim cleric and revolutionary Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, first published in 1970, and probably the most influential document written in modern times in support of theocratic rule.