Islam`s Political Order: The Model Deviations and Muslim Response

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The second chapter of the book deals with the principles of Islamic governance in the light of the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and the precepts and sayings of the prominent Ṣaḥābah (raḍi Allahu ‘anhu). The third chapter speaks of the distinguishing characteristics of the pious caliphate as known in the history. The fourth chapter delineates the causes that led to the shift from the caliphate to monarchy. While the following two chapters discuss the difference between the caliphate and monarchy, the change that the monarchy caused and the way the caliphal fall led to schismatic polarization and conflicts among the Muslims, followed by the ulama’s effort to bridge the cleavages wrought by the change in the system of governance as typified by Imām Abū Ḥanīfah’s and Abū Yūsuf ’s works.Today when an ongoing debate is taking place on the nature of Islamic state, “political Islam” and relation between state and “religion”, this research work of the Mawlana provides a resume of how the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh), visualize a modern Islamic state.