Unlike Christianity, where normative thought is expressed in theological writings, in Islam
normative thought is expressed in legal tradition. According to this tradition, the purpose of …

It is fashionable nowadays to be democratic; modern Muslim political scientists and writers
are no exception. Prompted by the desire to portray Islam as a modern ideology and a …

This article elicits some positive and normative bases of Islamic governance. It argues that
the Islamic state should be a republic since the prophet was “selected be God and the four …

The Islamic intellectual tradition—which includes Islamic legal thought (usul al-fiqh and fiqh),
theology (kalam), mysticism (tasawwuf), and philosophy (falsafa)—is highly developed and …

The purpose of this paper is to delineate the basic elements involved in the concept of the
Islamic state and to clar@ the basis and scope of political power. More specifically …

There is an alarming tendency in the conventional wisdom to identify what is “Islamic” in the
Persianate, and more generally the Islamicate, 1 culture and civilization by deriving it from …

In terms of political thought, as in so many other respects, Muslims today could be said to be
bilingual. On the one hand, they speak the global political language of Western derivation …

Although I have been directly involved in a political process that seeks to establish an
Islamic state, I am not going to describe the forms that an Islamic government might take in …

178 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 7, No. 2, 1990 demand placed on
human acts by Divine Will. Acts that fall in the categories on the two opposite extremes are …

As leader of the new Islamic community (ummah) 1 the Prophet Muhammad combined
religious interests with requirements of politics (siyāsah, literally “government”). 2 In the so …