{{Short description|none}} {{About|the issue of politics in the religion of Islam|the movement of “Political Islam“|Political Islam}}{{pp-semi-indef}}{{Islam |expanded=culture}}{{Islam and other religions}}Political aspects of Islam are derived from the Quran, á¸¥adÄ«th literature, and sunnah (accounts of the sayings and living habits attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad during his lifetime),ENCYCLOPEDIA, Zimney, Michelle, 2009, Introduction â€“ What Is Islam?, Campo, Juan E., Encyclopedia of Islam,books.google.com/books?id=OZbyz_Hr-eIC&pg=PAxxi, New York City, New York, Facts On File, Encyclopedia of World Religions, xxiâ€“xxxii, 978-0-8160-5454-1, 2008005621, the history of Islam, and elements of political movements outside Islam.BOOK, Ayoob, Mohammed, Lussier, Danielle N., 2020, Islam’s Multiple Voices,books.google.com/books?id=rjLDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26, The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 2nd, 26â€“44, 10.3998/mpub.11448711, 978-0-472-12640-8, 211404750, 2019025041, Traditional political concepts in Islam include leadership by elected or selected successors to Muhammad, known as Caliphs in SunnÄ« Islam and Imams in ShÄ«Ê¿a Islam; the importance of following the Islamic law (sharÄ«Ê¿a); the duty of rulers to seek consultation (shÅ«rÄ) from their subjects; and the importance of rebuking unjust rulers.Abu Hamid al-Ghazali quoted in Mortimer, Edward, Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam, Vintage Books, 1982, p.37A significant change in the Muslim world was the defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908â€“1922).BOOK, Roshwald, Aviel, 2013, Part II. The Emergence of Nationalism: Politics and Power â€“ Nationalism in the Middle East, 1876â€“1945,books.google.com/books?id=IlNoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA220, Breuilly, John, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, Oxford and New York City, New York, Oxford University Press, 220â€“241, 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199209194.013.0011, 9780191750304, Feldman, Noah, Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Princeton University Press, 2008, p.2 In the modern era (19thâ€“20th centuries), common Islamic political themes have been resistance to Western imperialism and enforcement of sharÄ«Ê¿a law through democratic or militant struggle. Events such as the defeat of Arab armies in the Six-Day War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and the fall of communism as a viable alternative have increased the appeal of Islamic movements such as Islamism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamic democracy, especially in the context of the global sectarian divide and conflict between SunnÄ«s and ShÄ«Ê¿Ä«tes,BOOK, Nasr, Vali, Vali Nasr, 2007, Chapter 5: The Battle of Islamic Fundamentalisms,books.google.com/books?id=BIXoGto8gTEC&pg=PA148, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, New York City, New York and London, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 148â€“149, 978-0-393-06211-3, 2006012361, MAGAZINE, Juneâ€“August 2017, Islamic Terrorism from a Risk Perspective,www.acamstoday.org/islamic-terrorism-from-a-risk-perspective/, live, ACAMS Today, Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, ACAMS,web.archive.org/web/20210416091535/https://www.acamstoday.org/islamic-terrorism-from-a-risk-perspective/, 16 April 2021, 24 February 2022, along with the popular dissatisfaction with secularist ruling regimes in the Muslim world.BOOK, Wagemakers, Joas, 2021, Part 3: Fundamentalisms and Extremists â€“ The Citadel of Salafism, Cusack, Carole M., Carole M. Cusack, Upal, M. Afzal, Afzal Upal, Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements, Leiden and Boston, Brill Publishers, Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, 21, 10.1163/9789004435544_019, free, 978-90-04-43554-4, 1874-6691, 333â€“347, BOOK, Litvak, Meir, 2021, Lange, Armin, Mayerhofer, Kerstin, Porat, Dina, Schiffman, Lawrence H., An End to Antisemitism! â€“ Volume 5: Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds, Islamic Radical Movements and Antisemitism: Between Old and New, Berlin and Boston, De Gruyter, 133â€“148, 10.1515/9783110671964-009, free, 9783110671964, JOURNAL, Baele, Stephane J., October 2019, Conspiratorial Narratives in Violent Political Actors’ Language,ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/10871/37355/2/ConspiratorialNarratives_MainArticle_Resubmit_FINAL_CLEAN%20.pdf, Giles, Howard, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, SAGE Publications, 38, 5â€“6, 706â€“734, 10.1177/0261927X19868494, free, 10871/37355, free, 1552-6526, 195448888, 3 January 2022,

Pre-modern Islam

Origins of Islam

(File:ArabianpeninsulaAL.PNG|thumb|Arabia united under Muhammad (7th century CE))Early Islam arose within the historical, social, political, economic, and religious context of Late Antiquity in the Middle East.{{sfn|Robinson|2010|p=9}} The second half of the 6th century CE saw political disorder in the pre-Islamic Arabian peninsula, and communication routes were no longer secure.BOOK, Christian Julien Robin, Arabia and Ethiopia. In The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity,books.google.com/books?id=GKRybwb17WMC&pg=PA297, 2012, OUP USA, 297â€“99, 9780195336931, Religious divisions played an important role in the crisis.BOOK, Christian Julien Robin, Arabia and Ethiopia. In The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity,books.google.com/books?id=GKRybwb17WMC&pg=PA302, 2012, OUP USA, 302, 9780195336931, Judaism became the dominant religion of the Himyarite Kingdom in Yemen after about 380 CE, while Christianity took root in the Persian Gulf. There was also a yearning for a more “spiritual form of religion”, and “the choice of religion increasingly became an individual rather than a collective issue.” While some Arabs were reluctant to convert to a foreign faith, those Abrahamic religions provided “the principal intellectual and spiritual reference points”, and Jewish and Christian loanwords from Aramaic began to replace the old pagan vocabulary of Arabic throughout the peninsula. The á¸¤anÄ«f (“renunciates“), a group of monotheists that sought to separate themselves both from the foreign Abrahamic religions and the traditional Arab polytheism,ENCYCLOPEDIA, Rubin, Uri, Uri Rubin, 2006, á¸¤anÄ«f, McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Encyclopaedia of the QurÊ¾Än, II, Leiden, Brill Publishers, 10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQCOM_00080, 978-90-04-14743-0, were looking for a new religious worldview to replace the pre-Islamic Arabian religions, focusing on “the all-encompassing father god Allah whom they freely equated with the Jewish Yahweh and the Christian Jehovah.“{{sfn|Rogerson|2010}} In their view, Mecca was originally dedicated to this monotheistic faith that they considered to be the one true religion, established by the patriarch Abraham.{{sfn|Rogerson|2010}}According to the traditional account, the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born in Mecca around the year 570 CE.“The very first question a biographer has to ask, namely when the person was born, cannot be answered precisely for Muhammad. [...] Muhammad’s biographers usually make him 40 or sometimes 43 years old at the time of his call to be a prophet, which [...] would put the year of his birth at about 570 A.D.” F. Buhl & A.T. Welch, Encyclopaedia of Islam 2nd ed., “Muhammad”, vol. 7, p. 361. His family belonged to the Arab clan of Quraysh, which was the chief tribe of Mecca and a dominant force in western Arabia.BOOK, Christian Julien Robin, Arabia and Ethiopia. In The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity,books.google.com/books?id=GKRybwb17WMC&pg=PA287, 2012, OUP USA, 287, 9780195336931, To counter the effects of anarchy, they upheld the institution of “sacred months” when all violence was forbidden and travel was safe.BOOK, Christian Julien Robin, Arabia and Ethiopia. In The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity,books.google.com/books?id=GKRybwb17WMC&pg=PA301, 2012, OUP USA, 301, 9780195336931, The polytheistic Kaaba shrine in Mecca and the surrounding area was a popular pilgrimage destination, which had significant economic consequences for the city.BOOK, Irving M. Zeitlin, The Historical Muhammad,books.google.com/books?id=sbhJJ7AOLL4C&pg=PA30, 19 March 2007, Polity, 978-0-7456-3999-4, 49, The origins of Islam as a religious and political movement are to be found in the life and times of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his successors.BOOK, Polk, William R., William R. Polk, 2018, The Caliphate and the Conquests,books.google.com/books?id=ozFDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North, New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series, 21â€“30, 10.2307/j.ctv1bvnfdq.7, 978-0-300-22290-6, j.ctv1bvnfdq.7, 2017942543, In 622 CE, in recognition of his claims to prophethood, Muhammad was invited to rule the city of Medina. At the time the local Arab tribes of Aus and Khazraj dominated the town, and were in constant conflict. Medinans considered Muhammad as an impartial outsider who could resolve the conflict. Muhammad and his followers thus moved to Medina, where Muhammad drafted the Constitution of Medina. The laws Muhammad established during his rule, based on the Quran and his own doing, are considered by Muslims to be sharÄ«Ê¿a or Islamic law, which Islamic movements seek to re-establish in the present day. Muhammad gained a widespread following and an army, and his rule expanded first to the city of Mecca and then spread across the Arabian peninsula through a combination of diplomacy and military conquests.The real intentions of Muhammad regarding the spread of Islam, its political undertone, and his missionary activity (da’wah) during his lifetime are a contentious matter of debate, which has been extensively discussed both among Muslim scholars and Non-Muslim scholars within the academic field of Islamic studies.BOOK, Poston, Larry, 1992, DaÊ»wah in the East: The Expansion of Islam from the First to the Twelfth Century, A.D.,books.google.com/books?id=hzvnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11, Islamic DaÊ»wah in the West: Muslim Missionary Activity and the Dynamics of Conversion to Islam, Oxford and New York City, New York, Oxford University Press, 11â€“12, 9780195072273, 133165051, Various authors, Islamic activists, and historians of Islam have proposed several understandings of Muhammad’s intent and ambitions regarding his religio-political mission in the context of the pre-Islamic Arabian society and the founding of his own religion:{{Blockquote

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â€”a political genius intent upon uniting the proliferation of Tribes of Arabia>tribal clans under the banner of a new religionâ€”or was his vision a truly international one, encompassing a desire to produce a reformed humanity in the midst of a new world order? These questions are not without significance, for a number of the proponents of contemporary da’wah activity in the West trace their inspiration to the prophet himself, claiming that he initiated a worldwide missionary program in which they are the most recent participants. [...] Despite the claims of these and other writers, it is difficult to prove that Muhammad intended to found a world-encompassing faith superseding the religions of Christianity and Judaism. His original aim appears to have been the establishment of a succinctly Arab brand of monotheism, as indicated by his many references to the QurÊ¾Än as an Arab book and by his accommodations to other monotheistic traditions.}}

Quran

File:Birmingham Quran manuscript - closeup.jpg|thumb|right|Close-up of one leave showing chapter division and verse-end markings written in Hijazi script from the Birmingham Quran manuscript, dated between c.â€‰568 and 645, held by the University of Birmingham University of BirminghamMost likely Muhammad was “intimately aware of Jewish belief and practices,” and acquainted with the á¸¤anÄ«f.{{sfn|Rogerson|2010}}{{sfn|Hazleton|2013|p=“a sense of kinship“}} Like the á¸¤anÄ«f, Muhammad practiced Taá¸¥annuth, spending time in seclusion at mount Hira and “turning away from paganism.“{{sfn|Bleeker|1968|p=32-34}}Sally Mallam, The Community of Believers When he was about 40 years old, he began receiving at mount Hira’ what Muslims regard as divine revelations delivered through the angel Gabriel, which would later form the Quran. These inspirations urged him to proclaim a strict monotheistic faith, as the final expression of Biblical prophetism earlier codified in the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity; to warn his compatriots of the impending Judgement Day; and to castigate social injustices of his city.{{#tag:ref|“Key themes in these early recitations include the idea of the moral responsibility of man who was created by God and the idea of the judgment to take place on the day of resurrection. [...] Another major theme of Muhammad’s early preaching, [... is that] there is a power greater than man’s, and that the wise will acknowledge this power and cease their greed and suppression of the poor.“ENCYCLOPEDIA, Buhl, F., Ehlert, Trude, Noth, A., Schimmel, Annemarie, Welch, A. T., Muá¸¥ammad, 1993, 2012, Bearman, P. J., Peri Bearman, Bianquis, Th., Thierry Bianquis, Bosworth, C. E., Clifford Edmund Bosworth, van Donzel, E. J., Emeri Johannes van Donzel, Heinrichs, W. P., Wolfhart Heinrichs, Encyclopaedia of Islam#2nd edition, EI2, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Leiden and Boston, Brill Publishers, 360â€“376, 10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0780, 978-90-04-16121-4, |group=Note}} Muhammad’s message won over a handful of followers (the á¹£aá¸¥Äba) and was met with increasing opposition from Meccan notables.BOOK, Donner, Fred M., Fred Donner, 2000, 1999, Muhammad and the Caliphate: Political History of the Islamic Empire Up to the Mongol Conquest,books.google.com/books?id=imw_KFD5bsQC&pg=PA5, Esposito, John L., The Oxford History of Islam, Oxford and New York City, New York, Oxford University Press, 5â€“10, 0-19-510799-3, 40838649, {{#tag:ref|“At first Muhammad met with no serious opposition [...] He was only gradually led to attack on principle the gods of Mecca. [...] Meccan merchants then discovered that a religious revolution might be dangerous to their fairs and their trade.“|group=Note}} In 622 CE, a few years after losing protection with the death of his influential uncle Ê¾AbÅ« á¹¬Älib ibn Ê¿Abd al-Muá¹á¹alib, Muhammad migrated to the city of Yathrib (subsequently called Medina) where he was joined by his followers.{{sfn|Robinson|2010|p=187}} Later generations would count this event, known as the hijra, as the start of the Islamic era.BOOK, Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples,books.google.com/books?id=egbOb0mewz4C&pg=PA15, 2002, Harvard University Press, 15â€“19, 9780674010178, In Yathrib, where he was accepted as an arbitrator among the different communities of the city under the terms of the Constitution of Medina, Muhammad began to lay the foundations of the new Islamic society, with the help of new Quranic verses which provided guidance on matters of law and religious observance. The surahs of this period emphasized his place among the long line of Biblical prophets, but also differentiated the message of the Quran from the sacred texts of Christianity and Judaism. Armed conflict with the Arab Meccans and Jewish tribes of the Yathrib area soon broke out.BOOK, W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Medina,archive.org/details/muhammadatmedina029655mbp, 1956, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1â€“17, 192â€“221, After a series of military confrontations and political manoeuvres, Muhammad was able to secure control of Mecca and allegiance of the Quraysh in 629 CE. In the time remaining until his death in 632 CE, tribal chiefs across the Arabian peninsula entered into various agreements with him, some under terms of alliance, others acknowledging his claims of prophethood and agreeing to follow Islamic practices, including paying the alms levy to his government, which consisted of a number of deputies, an army of believers, and a public treasury.In Islam, “the QurÊ¾Än is conceived by Muslims to be the word of God spoken to Muá¸¥ammad and then passed on to humanity in exactly the same form as it was received”.BOOK, Calder, Norman, Mojaddedi, Jawid, Rippin, Andrew, 2004, The life of Muá¸¥ammad,books.google.com/books?id=ZySCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16, Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, New York City, New York and London, Routledge, 1st, 16â€“35, 9780415505086, 2003043132, While the Quran doesn’t dwell on politics, it does make mention of concepts such as “the oppressed” (mustad’afeen), “emigration” (hijra), the “Muslim community” (Ummah), and “fighting” or “struggling” in the way of God (jihÄd), that can have political implications.BOOK, Cook, Michael, Michael Cook (historian), 1983, Muhammad, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 0192876058, 51â€“60, A number of Quranic verses (such as QURAN, 4, 98, no, nosup, ) talk about the mustad’afeen, which can be translated as “those deemed weak”, “underdogs”, or “the oppressed”, how they are put upon by people such as the pharaoh, how God wishes them to be treated justly, and how they should emigrate from the land where they are oppressed (QURAN, 4, 99, no, nosup, ). Abraham was an “emigrant unto my Lord” (QURAN, 29, 25, no, nosup, ). War against “unbelievers” (kuffÄr) is commanded and divine aid promised, although some verses state this may be when unbelievers start the war and treaties may end the war. The Quran also devotes some verses to the proper division of spoils captured in war among the victors. War against internal enemies or “hypocrites” (munÄfiá¸³Å«n) is also commanded. Some commands did not extend past the life of Muhammad, such as ones to refer quarrels to Allah and Muhammad or not to shout at or raise your voice when talking to Muhammad.BOOK, Cook, Michael, 1983, Muhammad, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 0192876058, 56â€“7, Limiting its political teaching is the fact that the Quran doesn’t mention “any formal and continuing structure of authority”, only orders to obey Muhammad, and that its themes were of limited use when the success of Islam meant governance of “a vast territory populate mainly peasants, and dominate by cities and states” alien to nomadic life in the desert.BOOK, Cook, Michael, 1983, Muhammad, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 0192876058, 59,

Islamic State of Medina

The Constitution of Medina was drafted by Muhammad. It constituted a formal agreement between Muhammad and all of the significant tribes and families of Yathrib (later known as Medina), including Muslims, Jews, Christians,R. B. Serjeant, “Sunnah JÄmi’ah, pacts with the Yathrib Jews, and the TahrÄ«m of Yathrib: analysis and translation of the documents comprised in the so-called ‘Constitution of Medina’”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (1978), 41: 1-42, Cambridge University Press. and Arab Pagans.See:

Reuven Firestone, JihÄd: the origin of holy war in Islam (1999) p. 118;
“Muhammad”, Encyclopedia of Islam OnlineWatt, William Montgomery. Muhammad at MedinaR. B. Serjeant. “The Constitution of Medina.” Islamic Quarterly 8 (1964) p.4. This constitution formed the basis of the first Islamic state. The document was drawn up with the explicit concern of bringing to an end the bitter intertribal fighting between the clans of the Aws (Aus and Khazraj) within Medina. To this effect it instituted a number of rights and responsibilities for the Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Pagan communities of Medina, bringing them within the fold of one community: the Ummah.Serjeant (1978), page 4.

The precise dating of the Constitution of Medina remains debated but generally scholars agree it was written shortly after the hijra (622 CE).{{#tag:ref|W.M. Watt argues that the initial agreement was shortly after the hijra and the document was amended at a later date specifically after the battle of Badr (AH [anno hijra] 2, = AD 624).Watt, William Montgomery. Muhammad at Medina. pp. 227-228|group=Note}}{{#tag:ref|R. B. Serjeant argues that the constitution is in fact eight different treaties which can be dated according to events as they transpired in Medina with the first treaty being written shortly after Muhammad’s arrival.R. B. Serjeant. “The Sunnah JÃ¢mi’ah, Pacts with the Yathrib Jews, and the TahrÃ®m of Yathrib: Analysis and Translation of the Documents Comprised in the so called ‘Constitution of Medina’.” in The Life of Muhammad: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World: Volume iv. Ed. Uri Rubin. Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998, p. 151see same article in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 41 (1978): 18 ff. See also Caetani. Annali dell’Islam, Volume I. Milano: Hoepli, 1905, p.393. |group=Note}}{{#tag:ref| Julius Wellhausen argues that the document is a single treaty agreed upon shortly after the hijra, and that it belongs to the first year of Muhammad’s residence in Medina, before the battle of Badr in 2/624. Wellhausen bases this judgement on three considerations; first Muhammad is very diffident about his own position, he accepts the Pagan tribes within the Umma, and maintains the Jewish clans as clients of the Ansarssee Wellhausen, Excursus, p. 158.Julius Wellhausen. Skizzen und Vorabeiten, IV, Berlin: Reimer, 1889, p 82f|group=Note}}{{#tag:ref| Moshe Gil, a skeptic of Islamic history, argues that it was written within five months of Muhammad’s arrival in Medina.Moshe Gil. “The Constitution of Medina: A Reconsideration.” Israel Oriental Studies 4 (1974): p. 45.|group=Note}} It effectively established the first Islamic state. The Constitution established: the security of the community, religious freedoms, the role of Medina as a haram or sacred place (barring all violence and weapons), the security of women, stable tribal relations within Medina, a tax system for supporting the community in time of conflict, parameters for exogenous political alliances, a system for granting protection of individuals, a judicial system for resolving disputes, and also regulated the paying of blood money (the payment between families or tribes for the slaying of an individual in lieu of lex talionis).{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Early Caliphate and political ideals

{{Further|Islamic ethics|Islamic leadership}}File:Map of expansion of Caliphate.svg|thumb|upright=1.6|Early Muslim conquests, 622â€“750:{{legend|#a1584e|Expansion under Muhammad, 622â€“632}}{{legend|#ef9070|Expansion under the RÄshidÅ«n Caliphate, 632â€“661}}{{legend|#fad07d|Expansion under the Umayyad Caliphate Umayyad CaliphateAfter the death of Muhammad in 632 CE, his community needed to appoint a new leader, giving rise to the title of caliph ().BOOK, van Ess, Josef, 2017, Setting the Seal on Prophecy,books.google.com/books?id=viRoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3, Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra, Volume 1: A History of Religious Thought in Early Islam, O’Kane, John, Leiden and Boston, Brill Publishers, Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East, 116/1, 3â€“7, 10.1163/9789004323384_002, 978-90-04-32338-4, 0169-9423, BOOK, Lewis, Bernard, Bernard Lewis, 1995, Part III: The Dawn and Noon of Islam â€“ Origins,books.google.com/books?id=CjAABdA9z18C&pg=PA51, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, New York City, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, Scribner, 51â€“58, 9780684832807, 34190629, Thus, the subsequent Islamic empires were known as “caliphates”,ENCYCLOPEDIA, Pakatchi, Ahmad, Ahmadi, Abuzar, 2017, Caliphate, Asatryan, Mushegh, Madelung, Wilferd, Daftary, Farhad, Encyclopaedia Islamica, Leiden and Boston, Brill Publishers, 10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_05000066, 1875-9823, and a series of four caliphs governed the early Islamic empire: AbÅ« Bakr (632â€“634), Ê¿Umar ibn al-Khaá¹á¹Äb (Umar Ð†, 634â€“644), Ê¿UthmÄn ibn Ê¿AffÄn (644â€“656), and Ê¿AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« á¹¬Älib (656â€“661). These leaders are known as the rÄshidÅ«n (“rightly-guided“) caliphs in SunnÄ« Islam. They oversaw the initial phase of the early Muslim conquests, advancing through Persia, the Levant, Egypt, and North Africa.Alongside the growth of the Umayyad Caliphate, the major political development within early Islam in this period was the sectarian split and political divide between Kharijite, SunnÄ«, and ShÄ«Ê¿a Muslims; this had its roots in a dispute over the succession for the role of caliph.BOOK, Izutsu, Toshihiko, Toshihiko Izutsu, 2006, 1965, The Concept of Belief in Islamic Theology: A Semantic Analysis of ImÄn and IslÄm, The Infidel (KÄfir): The KhÄrijites and the origin of the problem,books.google.com/books?id=PDxHG5MtLawC&pg=PA1, Tokyo, Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University, 1â€“20, 983-9154-70-2, SunnÄ«s believed the caliph was elective and any Muslim from the Arab clan of Quraysh, the tribe of Muhammad, might serve as one.BOOK, Lewis, Bernard, 1995, Part IV: Cross-Sections â€“ The State,books.google.com/books?id=CjAABdA9z18C&pg=PA139, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, New York City, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, Scribner, 139, 9780684832807, 34190629, ShÄ«Ê¿Ä«tes, on the other hand, believed the title of caliph should be hereditary in the bloodline of Muhammad,JOURNAL, Foody, Kathleen, September 2015, Interiorizing Islam: Religious Experience and State Oversight in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jain, Andrea R., Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 83, 3, 599â€“623, 10.1093/jaarel/lfv029, free, Oxford, Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Religion, 1477-4585, 0002-7189, 24488178, sc76000837, 1479270, For ShiÊ¿i Muslims, Muhammad not only designated Ali, Ê¿AlÄ« as his friend, but appointed him as his Succession to Muhammad, successorâ€”as the “lord” or “master” of the new Ummah, Muslim community. Ê¿AlÄ« and Family tree of Ali, his descendants would become known as Imamah (Shia doctrine), the Imams, divinely guided leaders of the ShiÊ¿i communities, sinless, and granted Tafsir, special insight into the QurÊ¾anic text. The theology of the Imams that developed over the next several centuries made little distinction between the authority of the Imams to politically lead the Muslim community and their spiritual prowess; quite to the contrary, their right to political leadership was grounded in their special spiritual insight. While in theory, the only just ruler of the Muslim community was the Imam, the Imams were politically marginal after the first generation. In practice, ShiÊ¿i Muslims negotiated varied approaches to both interpretative authority over Islamic holy books, Islamic texts and governance of the community, both during the lifetimes of the Imams themselves and even more so following the Occultation (Islam), disappearance of the Muhammad al-Mahdi, twelfth and final Imam in the ninth century., and thus all the caliphs, with the exceptions of Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law Ê¿AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« á¹¬Älib and his firstborn son á¸¤asan, were actually illegitimate usurpers. However, the SunnÄ« sect emerged as triumphant in most regions of the Muslim world, with the exceptions of Iran and Oman; thus, most modern Islamic political ideologies and movements are founded in SunnÄ« thought. Muhammad’s closest companions (á¹£aá¸¥Äba), the four “rightly-guided” caliphs who succeeded him, continued to expand the Islamic empire to encompass Jerusalem, Ctesiphon, and Damascus, and sending Arab Muslim armies as far as the Sindh region.weblink {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050930020401alcor.concordia.ca/~shannon/201Lec02images_files/image004.jpg |date=September 30, 2005}} The early Islamic empire stretched from al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) to the Punjab region under the reign of the Umayyad dynasty.An important Islamic concept concerning the structure of ruling is the shura or “consultation” with people regarding their affairs, which is the duty of rulers mentioned in two Quranic verses: QURAN, 3, 153, no, nosup, and QURAN, 42, 36, no, nosup, .BOOK, Lewis, Bernard, 1995, Part IV: Cross-Sections â€“ The State,books.google.com/books?id=CjAABdA9z18C&pg=PA141, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, New York City, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, Scribner, 141â€“143, 9780684832807, 34190629, One type of ruler not part of the Islamic ideal was the king, which was disparaged in the Quranic mentions of the Pharaoh, “the prototype of the unjust and tyrannical ruler” (QURAN, 18, 70, no, nosup, , QURAN, 18, 79, no, nosup, ) and elsewhere (QURAN, 28, 34, no, nosup, ). The phrase Ahl al-á¸¤all wa’l-’Aá¸³d () was used in order to denote those qualified to appoint or depose a caliph or another ruler on behalf of the Ummah.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Ahl al-á¸¤all wa’l-Ê¿Aá¸³d, 1960, Bosworth, C. E., Clifford Edmund Bosworth, van Donzel, E. J., Emeri Johannes van Donzel, Heinrichs, W. P., Wolfhart Heinrichs, Lewis, B., Pellat, Ch., Charles Pellat, Schacht, J., Joseph Schacht, Encyclopaedia of Islam#2nd edition, EI2, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Leiden, Brill Publishers, 1, 10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0381, 978-90-04-16121-4, 263â€“264, Olivier Roy writes that {{blockquote|Classical Islamic thought is overflowing with treatises on governing, advice to sovereigns, and didactic tales. They do not reflect on the nature of politics, but on the nature of the good ruler and of good government (advice, techniques, paradigms, anecdotes).Roy, Olivier, The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk, Harvard University Press, 1994, p.29}}

Election or appointment

{{Further|Islam and democracy}}Al-Mawardi, a SunnÄ« Muslim jurist of the ShÄfiÊ¿Ä« school of Islamic jurisprudence, wrote that the caliph should be a member of the Quraysh tribe. Abu Bakr al-Baqillani, an AshÊ¿arÄ« SunnÄ« Muslim scholar and MÄlikÄ« jurist, wrote that the leader of the Muslims simply should be elected from the majority. Abu Hanifa an-Nu’man, the founder of the SunnÄ« á¸¤anafÄ« school, also wrote that the leader must come from the majority.Process of Choosing the Leader (Caliph) of the Muslims: The Muslim Khilafa: by Gharm Allah Al-Ghamdy {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707062249www.2muslims.com/directory/Detailed/225505.shtml |date=2011-07-07 }}Western scholar of Islam, Fred Donner,The Early Islamic Conquests (1981) argues that the standard Arabian practice during the early caliphates was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader’s death and elect a leader from amongst themselves, although there was no specified procedure for this shura, or consultative assembly. Candidates were usually from the same lineage as the deceased leader but they were not necessarily his sons. Capable men who would lead well were preferred over an ineffectual direct heir, as there was no basis in the majority SunnÄ« view that the head of state or governor should be chosen based on lineage alone.Majlis ash-Shura“>

Majlis ash-Shura

Deliberations in the politics of the early caliphates, most notably the RÄshidÅ«n Caliphate, were not “democratic” in the modern sense of the term; rather, decision-making power laid with a council (shura) of notable and trusted companions of Muhammad (á¹£aá¸¥Äba) and representatives of different Arab tribes (most of them selected or elected within their tribes).Sohaib N. Sultan, Forming an Islamic Democracy {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041001023746www.islamonline.net/English/introducingislam/politics/Politics/article04.shtml |date=2004-10-01 }} Traditional SunnÄ« Muslim jurists agree that the shura, loosely translated as “consultation”, is a function of the Islamic caliphate. The Majlis-ash-Shura advise the caliph. The importance of this is premised by the following verses of the Quran:QURAN, 42, 38, no, ...those who answer the call of their Lord and establish the prayer, and who conduct their affairs by Shura. [are loved by God], QURAN, 3, 159, no, ...consult them (the people) in their affairs. Then when you have taken a decision (from them), put your trust in Allah, The majlis were also the means to elect a new caliph. Al-Mawardi wrote that members of the majlis should satisfy three conditions: they must be just, they must have enough knowledge to distinguish a good caliph from a bad one, and must have sufficient wisdom and judgment to select the best caliph. Al-Mawardi also stated that in case of emergencies when there is no caliphate and no majlis, the people themselves should institute a council of majlis, select a list of candidates for the role of caliph, then the majlis should select from the list of candidates.{{Unreliable source?|date=April 2019}}Some modern political interpretations regarding the role of the Majlis ash-Shura include those expressed by the Egyptian Islamist author and ideologue Sayyid Qutb, prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian Muslim scholar and propagandist Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, founder of the pan-Islamist political party Hizb ut-Tahrir.JOURNAL, Shavit, Uriya, August 2010, Is Shura a Muslim Form of Democracy? Roots and Systemization of a Polemic, Middle Eastern Studies (journal), Middle Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis, 46, 3, 349â€“374, 10.1080/00263200902917085, 1743-7881, 65009869, 875122033, 145304876, In an analysis of the shura chapter of the Quran, Qutb argued that Islam requires only that the ruler consult with at least some of the ruled (usually the elite), within the general context of divine laws that the ruler must execute. Al-Nabhani argued that the shura is important and part of “the ruling structure” of the Islamic caliphate, “but not one of its pillars”, and may be neglected without the caliphate’s rule becoming un-Islamic. However, these interpretations formulated by Qutb and al-Nabhani are not universally accepted in the Islamic political thought, and Islamic democrats consider the shura to be an integral part and important pillar of Islamic political system.

Separation of powers

{{Further|Islam and secularism|Islamic ethics}}In the early Islamic caliphates, the caliph was the head of state, and had a position based on the notion of a successor to Muhammad’s political authority, who, according to SunnÄ« Muslims, were ideally elected by the people or their representatives,Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (2004), vol. 1, p. 116-123. as was the case for the election of AbÅ« Bakr (632â€“634), Ê¿UthmÄn ibn Ê¿AffÄn (644â€“656), and Ê¿AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« á¹¬Älib (656â€“661). After the rÄshidÅ«n caliphs, later caliphates during the Islamic Golden Age had a much lesser degree of democratic participation, but since “no one was superior to anyone else except on the basis of piety and virtue” in Islam, and following the example of Muhammad, later Islamic rulers often held public consultations with the people in their affairs.BOOK, Justice Without Frontiers, Christopher G., Judge Weeramantry, 1997, Brill Publishers, 90-411-0241-8, 135, The legislative power of the caliph (or later, the sultan) was always restricted by the scholarly class, the ulama, a group regarded as the guardians of Islamic law. Since the sharia law was established and regulated by the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, this prevented the caliph from dictating legal results. Sharia-compliant rulings were established as authoritative based on the ijma (consensus) of legal Muslim scholars, who theoretically acted as representatives of the entire Ummah (Muslim community).NEWS, Feldman, Noah, March 16, 2008, Why Shariah?,www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16Shariah-t.html?&pagewanted=all, The New York Times, 2008-10-05, After law colleges (madrasa) became widespread beginning with the 11th and 12th century CE, students of Islamic jurisprudence often had to obtain an ijaza-t al-tadris wa-l-ifta (“license to teach and issue legal opinions“) in order to issue valid legal rulings.JOURNAL, Makdisi, George, Aprilâ€“June 1989, Scholasticism and Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 109, 2, 175â€“182 [175â€“77], 10.2307/604423, 604423, In many ways, classical Islamic law functioned like a constitutional law.Practically, for hundreds of years after the fall of the RÄshidÅ«n Caliphate (7th century CE) and until the first half of the 20th century, Muslim-majority countries usually adopted a system of government based on the coexistence of the sultan and ulama which followed the rules of the sharia law. This system resembled to some extent some Western governments in possessing an unwritten constitution (like the United Kingdom), and possessing separate, countervailing branches of government (like the United States), which provided a clear separation of powers in socio-political governance. While the United States and some other systems of government have three separate branches of governmentâ€”executive, legislative, and judicialâ€”Islamic monarchies had two: the sultan and the ulama.Feldman, Noah, Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Princeton University Press, 2008, p.6According to the French political scientist and professor Olivier Roy, this ”de facto separation between political power” of sultans and emirs and religious power of the caliph was “created and institutionalized ... as early as the end of the first century of the hegira.” The sovereign’s religious function was to defend the Muslim community against its enemies, institute the sharia, ensure the public good (maslaha). The state was instrument to enable Muslims to live as good Muslims and Muslims were to obey the sultan if he did so. The legitimacy of the ruler was “symbolized by the right to coin money and to have the Friday prayer (Jumu’ah khutba) said in his name.“Roy, Olivier, The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk, Harvard University Press, 1994, p.14-15British lawyer and journalist Sadakat Kadri argues that a large “degree of deference” was shown to the caliphate by the ulama and this was at least at times “counterproductive”. “Although jurists had identified conditions from mental incapacity to blindness that could disqualify a caliph, none had ever dared delineate the powers of the caliphate as an institution.” During the Abbasid caliphate:When Caliph Al-Mutawakkil had been killed in 861, jurists had retroactively validated his murder with a fatwa. Eight years later, they had testified to the lawful abdication of a successor, after he had been dragged from a toilet, beaten unconscious, and thrown into a vault to die. By the middle of the tenth century, judges were solemnly confirming that the onset of blindness had disqualified a caliph, without mentioning that they had just been assembled to witness the gouging of his eyes.BOOK, Kadri, Sadakat, Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari’a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia ..., 2012, Macmillan, 9780099523277, 120â€“1,books.google.com/books?id=ztCRZOhJ10wC&pg=PT127, According to Noah Feldman, law professor at Harvard University, the Muslim legal scholars and jurists lost their control over Islamic law due to the codification of sharia by the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century:WEB, Noah Feldman, Why Shariah?, New York Times, March 16, 2008,www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16Shariah-t.html?ei=5070&em=&en=5c1b8de536ce606f&ex=1205812800&pagewanted=all, 2008-10-05, {{Blockquote|How the scholars lost their exalted status as keepers of the law is a complex story, but it can be summed up in the adage that partial reforms are sometimes worse than none at all. In the early 19th century, the Ottoman empire responded to military setbacks with an internal reform movement. The most important reform was the attempt to codify Shariah. This Westernizing process, foreign to the Islamic legal tradition, sought to transform Shariah from a body of doctrines and principles to be discovered by the human efforts of the scholars into a set of rules that could be looked up in a book. [...] Once the law existed in codified form, however, the law itself was able to replace the scholars as the source of authority. Codification took from the scholars their all-important claim to have the final say over the content of the law and transferred that power to the state.}}

Obedience and opposition

File:Muhammad’s widow, Aisha, battling the fourth caliph Ali in the Battle of the Camel.jpg|thumb|Muhammad’s widow, Aisha, battling the fourth caliph Ali in the Battle of the Camel (16th-century miniature from a copy of the Siyer-i Nebi Siyer-i NebiAccording to scholar Moojan Momen, “One of the key statements in the Qur’an around which much of the exegesis” on the issue of what Islamic doctrine says about who is in charge is based on the verse “O believers! Obey God and obey the Apostle and those who have been given authority [uulaa al-amr] among you” (QURAN, 4, 59, ns, ).For SunnÄ«s, the expression “those who have been given authority” (uulaa al-amr) refers to the rulers (caliphs and kings), but for ShÄ«Ê¿as it refers to the Imams.Momen, Moojan, Introduction to Shi’i Islam, Yale University Press, 1985 p.192 According to the British historian and Orientalist scholar Bernard Lewis, this Quranic verse has beenelaborated in a number of sayings attributed to Muhammad. But there are also sayings that put strict limits on the duty of obedience. Two dicta attributed to the Prophet and universally accepted as authentic are indicative. One says, “there is no obedience in sin”; in other words, if the ruler orders something contrary to the divine law, not only is there no duty of obedience, but there is a duty of disobedience. This is more than the right of revolution that appears in Western political thought. It is a duty of revolution, or at least of disobedience and opposition to authority. The other pronouncement, “do not obey a creature against his creator,” again clearly limits the authority of the ruler, whatever form of ruler that may be.WEB,www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84305/bernard-lewis/freedom-and-justice-in-the-modern-middle-east.html?mode=print, Freedom and Justice in the Middle East, 2008-11-05,www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84305/bernard-lewis/freedom-and-justice-in-the-modern-middle-east.html?mode=print," title="web.archive.org/web/20071230195152www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84305/bernard-lewis/freedom-and-justice-in-the-modern-middle-east.html?mode=print,">web.archive.org/web/20071230195152www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84305/bernard-lewis/freedom-and-justice-in-the-modern-middle-east.html?mode=print, 2007-12-30, dead, According to the exegetical interpretation of the medieval SunnÄ« Muslim scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, for this verse “there is no obedience in sin”; that people should ignore the order of the ruler if it would disobey the divine law and shouldn’t use this as excuse for revolution because it will spill Muslims’ blood. According to Ibn Taymiyyah, the saying “sixty years with an unjust imam is better than one night without a sultan” was confirmed by experience.BOOK, Lambton, Ann K. S., State and Government in Medieval Islam, 2002, Routledge, 145,books.google.com/books?id=DVvYAQAAQBAJ&q=siyasa+ibn+taymiyyah&pg=PA144, 19 September 2015, 9781136605208, He believed that the Quranic injunction to “enjoin good and forbid evil” (al-amr bi-l-maÊ¿rÅ«f wa-n-nahy Ê¿ani-l-munkar, found in QURAN, 3, 104, ns, , QURAN, 3, 110, ns, , and other verses) was the duty of every state functionary with charge over other Muslims, from the caliph to “the schoolmaster in charge of assessing children’s handwriting exercises.“Ibn Taymiyya, Le traite de droit public d’ibn Taimiya. Translated by Henri Laoust. Beirut, 1948, p.12BOOK, Kadri, Sadakat, Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari’a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia ..., 2012, macmillan, 9780099523277, 139,books.google.com/books?id=ztCRZOhJ10wC&q=Heaven+on+Earth%3A+A+Journey+Through+Shari%27a+Law, siyasa)“>

Sharia and governance (siyasa)

Starting from the late medieval period, Sunni fiqh elaborated the doctrine of siyasa shar’iyya, which literally means governance according to sharia, and is sometimes called the political dimension of Islamic law. Its goal was to harmonize Islamic law with the practical demands of statecraft.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Bosworth, C.E., Netton, I.R., Vogel, F.E., SiyÄsa, 2012, Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd, Brill, P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs, 10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_1096, {{subscription required}} The doctrine emphasized the religious purpose of political authority and advocated non-formalist application of Islamic law if required by expedience and utilitarian considerations. It first emerged in response to the difficulties raised by the strict procedural requirements of Islamic law. The law rejected circumstantial evidence and insisted on witness testimony, making criminal convictions difficult to obtain in courts presided over by qadis (sharia judges). In response, Islamic jurists permitted greater procedural latitude in limited circumstances, such as adjudicating grievances against state officials in the mazalim courts administered by the ruler’s council and application of “corrective” discretionary punishments for petty offenses. However, under the Mamluk sultanate, non-qadi courts expanded their jurisdiction to commercial and family law, running in parallel with sharia courts and dispensing with some formalities prescribed by fiqh. Further developments of the doctrine attempted to resolve this tension between statecraft and jurisprudence. In later times the doctrine has been employed to justify legal changes made by the state in consideration of public interest, as long as they were deemed not to be contrary to sharia. It was, for example, invoked by the Ottoman rulers who promulgated a body of administrative, criminal, and economic laws known as qanun.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Yossef Rapoport, Political Dimension (SiyÄsa SharÊ¿iyya) of Islamic Law, The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, 978-0-19-513405-6,www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195134056.001.0001/acref-9780195134056-e-635, Stanley N. Katz, {{subscription required}}

ShÄ«Ê¿a tradition

In ShÄ«Ê¿a Islam, three attitudes towards rulers predominated â€” political cooperation with the ruler, political activism challenging the ruler, and aloofness from politics â€” with “writings of Shi’i ulama through the ages” showing “elements of all three of these attitudes.“Momen, Moojan, Introduction to Shi’i Islam, Yale University Press, 1985 p.194

Kharijite tradition

{{Muhakkima Islam |expanded=History}}Islamic extremism dates back to the early history of Islam with the emergence of the Kharijites in the 7th century CE. The original schism between Kharijites, SunnÄ«s, and ShÄ«Ê¿as among Muslims was disputed over the political and religious succession to the guidance of the Muslim community (Ummah) after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. From their essentially political position, the Kharijites developed extreme doctrines that set them apart from both mainstream SunnÄ« and ShÄ«Ê¿a Muslims. ShÄ«Ê¿as believe Ê¿AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« á¹¬Älib is the true successor to Muhammad, while SunnÄ«s consider Abu Bakr to hold that position. The Kharijites broke away from both the ShÄ«Ê¿as and the SunnÄ«s during the First Fitna (the first Islamic Civil War); they were particularly noted for adopting a radical approach to takfÄ«r (excommunication), whereby they declared both SunnÄ« and ShÄ«Ê¿a Muslims to be either infidels (kuffÄr) or false Muslims (munÄfiá¸³Å«n), and therefore deemed them worthy of death for their perceived apostasy (ridda).NEWS,www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/another-battle-with-islams-true-believers/article20802390/, Another battle with Islam’s ‘true believers’, Khan, Sheema, 12 May 2018, The Globe and Mail, The Globe and Mail Opinion, 19 April 2020, WEB,www.quilliamfoundation.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/publications/free/the-balance-of-islam-in-challenging-extremism.pdf, The Balance of Islam in Challenging Extremism, Hasan, Usama, 2012, Quiliam Foundation, dead,www.quilliamfoundation.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/publications/free/the-balance-of-islam-in-challenging-extremism.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20140802045255www.quilliamfoundation.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/publications/free/the-balance-of-islam-in-challenging-extremism.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20140802045255www.quilliamfoundation.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/publications/free/the-balance-of-islam-in-challenging-extremism.pdf, 2 August 2014, 2015-11-17, The Islamic tradition traces the origin of the Kharijities to the battle between Ê¿AlÄ« and Mu’awiya at Siffin in 657 CE. When Ê¿AlÄ« was faced with a military stalemate and agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration, some of his party withdrew their support from him. “Judgement belongs to God alone” (Ù„Ø§ÙŽ ØÙÙƒÙ’ÙƒÙ’ Ø¥Ù„ÙŽØ§ Ù„ÙÙ„Ù‘Ù‡Ù) became the slogan of these secessionists. They also called themselves al-Shurat (“the Vendors“), to reflect their willingness to sell their lives in martyrdom.BOOK, Brown, Daniel, A New Introduction to Islam, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017, 9781118953464, 3rd, Oxford, 163â€“169, These original Kharijites opposed both Ê¿AlÄ« and Mu’awiya, and appointed their own leaders. They were decisively defeated by Ê¿AlÄ«, who was in turn assassinated by a Kharijite. Kharijites engaged in guerilla warfare against the Umayyads, but only became a movement to be reckoned with during the Second Fitna (the second Islamic Civil War) when they at one point controlled more territory than any of their rivals. The Kharijites were, in fact, one of the major threats to Ibn al-Zubayr’s bid for the caliphate; during this time they controlled Yamama and most of southern Arabia, and captured the oasis town of al-Ta’if.The Azariqa, considered to be the extreme faction of the Kharijites, controlled parts of western Iran under the Umayyads until they were finally put down in 699 CE. The more moderate Ibadi Kharijites were longer-lived, continuing to wield political power in North and East Africa and in eastern Arabia during the Abbasid period. Because of their readiness to declare any opponent as apostate, the extreme Kharijites tended to fragment into small groups. One of the few points that the various Kharijite splinter groups held in common was their view of the caliphate, which differed from other Muslim theories on two points.

First, they were principled egalitarians, holding that any pious Muslim (“even an Ethiopian slave“) can become Caliph and that family or tribal affiliation is inconsequential. The only requirements for leadership are piety and acceptance by the community.
Second, they agreed that it is the duty of the believers to depose any leader who falls into error. This second principle had profound implications for Kharijite theology. Applying these ideas to the early history of the caliphate, Kharijites only accept Abu Bakr and ‘Umar as legitimate caliphs. Of ‘Uthman’s caliphate they recognize only the first six years as legitimate, and they reject ‘Ali altogether.

By the time that Ibn al-Muqaffa’ wrote his political treatise early in the ‘Abbasid period, the Kharijites were no longer a significant political threat, at least in the Islamic heartlands. The memory of the menace they had posed to Muslim unity and of the moral challenge generated by their pious idealism still weighed heavily on Muslim political and religious thought, however. Even if the Kharijites could no longer threaten, their ghosts still had to be answered. The Ibadis are the only Kharijite group to survive into modern times.

Modern era

Reaction to European colonialism

In the 19th century, European colonization of the Muslim world coincided with the French conquest of Algeria (1830), the fall of the Mughal Empire in India (1857), the Russian incursions into the Caucasus (1828) and Central Asia (1830-1895), and ultimately in the 20th century with the defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908â€“1922), to which the Ottoman officer and Turkish revolutionary statesman Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk had an instrumental role in ending and replacing it with the Republic of Turkey, a modern, secular democracyENCYCLOPEDIA, Cuthell, David Cameron Jr., 2009, Ãgoston, GÃ¡bor, Bruce, Masters, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, AtatÃ¼rk, Kemal (Mustafa Kemal),books.google.com/books?id=QjzYdCxumFcC&pg=PA56, New York City, New York, Facts On File, 56â€“60, 978-0-8160-6259-1, 2008020716, 23 January 2021, (see Abolition of the Caliphate, Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, Kemalism, and Secularism in Turkey).The first Muslim reaction to European colonization was of “peasant and religious”, not urban origin. “Charismatic leaders”, generally members of the ulama or leaders of religious orders, launched the call for jihad and formed tribal coalitions. Sharia, in defiance of local common law, was imposed to unify tribes. Examples include Abd al-Qadir in Algeria, Muhammad Ahmad in Sudan, Shamil in the Caucasus, the Senussi in Libya and Chad, Mullah-i Lang in Afghanistan, the Akhund of Swat in India, and later, Abd al-Karim in Morocco. All these movements eventually failed “despite spectacular victories such as the massacre of the British army in Afghanistan in 1842 and the taking of Kharoum in 1885.“Roy, Olivier, The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk, Harvard University Press, 1994, p.32File:Sharif Husayn.jpg|thumb|right|Hussein bin Ali, the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 to 1924 and King of the Hejaz King of the Hejaz Hussein bin Ali, the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908, enthroned himself as King of the Hejaz after proclaiming the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, and continued to hold both of the offices of Sharif and King from 1916 to 1924. At the end of his reign he also briefly laid claim to the office of Sharifian Caliph; he was a 37th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad, as he belongs to the Hashemite family. A member of the Dhawu Awn clan (Banu Hashim) from the Qatadid emirs of Mecca, he was perceived to have rebellious inclinations and in 1893 was summoned to Istanbul, where he was kept on the Council of State. In 1908, in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution, he was appointed Emir of Mecca by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II. In 1916, with the promise of British support for Arab independence, he proclaimed the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, accusing the Committee of Union and Progress of violating tenets of Islam and limiting the power of the sultan-caliph. Shortly after the outbreak of the revolt, Hussein declared himself “King of the Arab Countries”. However, his pan-Arab aspirations were not accepted by the Allies, who recognized him only as King of the Hejaz. In the aftermath of World War I, Hussein refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, in protest at the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of British and French mandates in Syria, Iraq, and Palestine. He later refused to sign the Anglo-Hashemite Treaty and thus deprived himself of British support when his kingdom was attacked by Ibn Saud. After the Kingdom of Hejaz was invaded by the Al Saud-Wahhabi armies of the Ikhwan, on 23 December 1925 King Hussein bin Ali surrendered to the Saudis, bringing both the Kingdom of Hejaz and the Sharifate of Mecca to an end.BOOK, Peters, Francis E., 2017, 1994, Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land,books.google.com/books?id=tdb6F1qVDhkC&pg=PA397, Princeton, New Jersey and Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Princeton University Press, Princeton Legacy Library, 397, 9781400887361, 468351969, The second Muslim reaction to European encroachment later in the century and early 20th century was not violent resistance but the adoption of some Western political, social, cultural and technological ways. Members of the urban elite, particularly in Egypt, Iran, and Turkey, advocated and practiced “Westernization”. The failure of the attempts at political westernization, according to some, was exemplified by the Tanzimat reorganization of the Ottoman rulers. Sharia was codified into law (which was called the Mecelle) and an elected legislature was established to make law. These steps took away the ulama’s role of “discovering” the law and the formerly powerful scholar class weakened and withered into religious functionaries, while the legislature was suspended less than a year after its inauguration and never recovered to replace the Ulama as a separate “branch” of government providing separation of powers.Feldman, Noah, Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Princeton University Press, 2008, p.71-76 The “paradigm of the executive as a force unchecked by either the sharia of the scholars or the popular authority of an elected legislature became the dominant paradigm in most of the Sunni Muslim world in the 20th century.“Feldman, Noah, Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Princeton University Press, 2008, p.79

Modern political ideal of the Islamic state

{{See also|Islamism|Islamization|Political Islam|Political quietism in Islam}}{{Islamism sidebar |expanded=Concepts}}In addition to the legitimacy given by medieval scholarly opinion, nostalgia for the days of successful Islamic empires simmered under later Western colonialism. This nostalgia played a major role in the Islamist political ideal of the Islamic state, a state in which Islamic law is preeminent.{{citation|title=Liberal Democracy and Political Islam: the Search for Common Ground|last=Benhenda|first=M.|date=20 September 2009 |ssrn=1475928}} The Islamist political program is generally to be accomplished by re-shaping the governments of existing Muslim nation-states; but the means of doing this varies greatly across movements and circumstances. Many democratic Islamist movements, such as the Jamaat-e-Islami and Muslim Brotherhood, have used the democratic process and focus on votes and coalition-building with other political parties.File:Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri 2001.jpg|thumb|right|Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaeda have promoted the overthrow of secular governments.BOOK, Gallagher, Eugene V., Willsky-Ciollo, Lydia, Eugene V. Gallagher, 2021, Al-Qaeda,books.google.com/books?id=Id4aEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13, New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World, Santa Barbara, California, ABC-CLIO, 1, 13â€“15, 978-1-4408-6235-9, BOOK, AydÄ±nlÄ±, Ersel, 2018, 2016, Violent Non-State Actors: From Anarchists to Jihadists, The Jihadists pre-9/11,books.google.com/books?id=hq1TDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA65, London and New York City, New York, Routledge, 1st, Routledge Studies on Challenges, Crises, and Dissent in World Politics, 65â€“109, 978-1-315-56139-4, 2015050373, BOOK, Moussalli, Ahmad S., 2012, Sayyid Qutb: Founder of Radical Islamic Political Ideology,books.google.com/books?id=D-LfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA24, Akbarzadeh, Shahram, Routledge Handbook of Political Islam, London and New York City, New York, Routledge Routledge Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian Islamist ideologue and prominent figurehead of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, was influential in promoting the Pan-Islamist ideology in the 1960s.BOOK, Polk, William R., William R. Polk, 2018, The Philosopher of the Muslim Revolt, Sayyid Qutb,books.google.com/books?id=ozFDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA370, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North, New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series, 370â€“380, 10.2307/j.ctv1bvnfdq.40, 978-0-300-22290-6, j.ctv1bvnfdq.40, 2017942543, When he was executed by the Egyptian government under the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ayman al-Zawahiri formed the organization Egyptian Islamic Jihad to replace the government with an Islamic state that would reflect Qutb’s ideas for the Islamic revival that he yearned for.BOOK, The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, Lawrence Wright, Knopf, 2006, 0-375-41486-X, 2, The Qutbist ideology has been influential on jihadist movements and Islamic terrorists that seek to overthrow secular governments, most notably Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaeda,BOOK, Cook, David, David Cook (historian), 2015, 2005, Radical Islam and Contemporary Jihad Theory,books.google.com/books?id=SqE2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA102, Understanding Jihad, Berkeley, California, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2nd, 102â€“110, 9780520287327, 10.1525/j.ctv1xxt55.10, 2015010201, as well as the Salafi-jihadi terrorist group ISIL/ISIS/IS/Daesh. Moreover, Qutb’s books have been frequently been cited by Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/world/09awlaki.html?pagewanted=5&hp, Imam’s Path From Condemning Terror to Preaching Jihad, Scott Shane, Souad Mekhennet, Robert F. Worth, amp, 8 May 2010, The New York Times, 13 May 2010, Robert Irwin, “Is this the man who inspired Bin Laden?” The Guardian (1 November 2001).Paul Berman, “The Philosopher of Islamic Terror”, New York Times Magazine (23 March 2003).Out of the Shadows: Getting ahead of prisoner radicalizationWEB,www.pwhce.org/evolutionofalqaeda.html, The Evolution of Al-Qaeda: Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Trevor Stanley, 26 February 2015, Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic-Fascism {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609120804www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/07spring/eikmeier.htm |date=2007-06-09}} by Dale C. Eikmeier. From Parameters, Spring 2007, pp. 85â€“98.Sayyid Qutb could be said to have founded the actual movement of radical Islam. Radical Islamic movements such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban embrace the militant Islamist ideology, and were prominent for being part of the anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan during the 1980s. Both of the aforementioned militant Islamist groups had a role to play in the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, presenting both “near” and “far” enemies as regional governments and the United States respectively.BOOK, The World Transformed, 1945 to the Present, Hunt, Michael, Oxford, 2014, 978-0-19-937102-0, New York City, 495, They also took part in the bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005. The recruits often came from the ranks of jihadists, from Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco.Jihadism has been defined otherwise as a neologism for militant, predominantly SunnÄ« Islamic movements that use ideologically-motivated violence to defend the Ummah (the collective Muslim world) from foreign Non-Muslims and those that they perceive as domestic infidels.JOURNAL, Crenshaw, Martha, 2017, Transnational Jihadism & Civil Wars,direct.mit.edu/daed/article/146/4/59-70/27165, Daedalus (journal), Daedalus, MIT Press for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 146, 4, 59â€“70, 10.1162/DAED_a_00459, 0011-5266, The term “jihadist globalism” is also often used in relation to Islamic terrorism as a globalist ideology, and more broadly to the War on Terror.BOOK, Steger, Manfred B., Manfred B. Steger, 2011, Jihadist Globalism versus Imperial Globalism: The Great Ideological Struggle of the Twenty-First Century?, The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror, Oxford and New York City, New York, Oxford University Press, 213â€“248, 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199286942.003.0007, 9780191700408, The Austrian-American academic Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Sociology at the University of HawaiÊ»i at MÄnoa, proposed an extension of the term “jihadist globalism” to apply to all extremely violent strains of religiously influenced ideologies that articulate the global imaginary into concrete political agendas and terrorist strategies; these include al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah, Hamas, and Hezbollah, which he finds “today’s most spectacular manifestation of religious globalism”.Steger, Manfred B. Globalization: A Short Introduction. 2009. Oxford University Press, p. 127.

Compatibility with democracy

General Muslim views

Western scholars John Esposito and Natana J. DeLong-Bas distinguish four attitudes toward sharia and democracy prominent among Muslims today:BOOK, John L., Esposito, Natana J., DeLong-Bas, Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press, 2018, 142â€“143,

Advocacy of democratic ideas, often accompanied by a belief that they are compatible with Islam, which can play a public role within a democratic system, as exemplified by many protestors who took part in the Arab Spring uprisings;
Support for democratic procedures such as elections, combined with religious or moral objections toward some aspects of Western democracy seen as incompatible with sharia, as exemplified by Islamic scholars like Yusuf al-Qaradawi;
Rejection of democracy as a Western import and advocacy of traditional Islamic institutions, such as shura (consultation) and ijma (consensus), as exemplified by supporters of absolute monarchy and radical Islamist movements;
Belief that democracy requires restricting religion to private life, held by a minority in the Muslim world.

Polls conducted by Gallup and Pew Research Center in Muslim-majority countries indicate that most Muslims see no contradiction between democratic values and religious principles, desiring neither a theocracy, nor a secular democracy, but rather a political model where democratic institutions and values can coexist with the values and principles of sharia.BOOK, John L., Esposito, Natana J., DeLong-Bas, Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press, 2018, 145, WEB, Pew Research Center, Most Muslims Want Democracy, Personal Freedoms, and Islam in Political Life, July 10, 2012,www.pewglobal.org/2012/07/10/most-muslims-want-democracy-personal-freedoms-and-islam-in-political-life/, WEB, Gallup, Majorities See Religion and Democracy as Compatible, Oct 3, 2017, Magali Rheault, Dalia Mogahed,news.gallup.com/poll/28762/majorities-muslims-americans-see-religion-law-compatible.aspx,

Islamic political theories

Muslih and Browers identify three major perspectives on democracy among prominent Muslims thinkers who have sought to develop modern, distinctly Islamic theories of socio-political organization conforming to Islamic values and law:ENCYCLOPEDIA, Muslih, Muhammad, Browers, Michaelle, Democracy, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, John L. Esposito, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009,www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0185,www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0185," title="web.archive.org/web/20170611235451www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0185,">web.archive.org/web/20170611235451www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0185, dead, June 11, 2017,

The rejectionist Islamic view, elaborated by Muhammad Rashid Rida, Sayyid Qutb and Abul A’la Maududi, condemns imitation of foreign ideas, drawing a distinction between Western democracy and the Islamic doctrine of shura (consultation between ruler and ruled). This perspective, which stresses comprehensive implementation of sharia, was widespread in the 1970s and 1980s among various movements seeking to establish an Islamic state, but its popularity has diminished in recent years.
The moderate Islamic view stresses the concepts of maslaha (public interest), Ê¿adl (justice), and shura. Islamic leaders are considered to uphold justice if they promote public interest, as defined through shura. In this view, shura provides the basis for representative government institutions that are similar to Western democracy, but reflect Islamic rather than Western liberal values. Hasan al-Turabi, Rashid al-Ghannushi, and Yusuf al-Qaradawi have advocated different forms of this view.
The liberal Islamic view is influenced by Muhammad Abduh’s emphasis on the role of reason in understanding religion. It stresses democratic principles based on pluralism and freedom of thought. Authors like Fahmi Huwaidi and Tariq al-Bishri have constructed Islamic justifications for full citizenship of non-Muslims in an Islamic state by drawing on early Islamic texts. Others, like Mohammed Arkoun and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, have justified pluralism and freedom through non-literalist approaches to textual interpretation. Abdolkarim Soroush has argued for a “religious democracy” based on religious thought that is democratic, tolerant, and just. Islamic liberals argue for the necessity of constant reexamination of religious understanding, which can only be done in a democratic context.

20th and 21st centuries

{{Further|Antisemitism in the Arab world|Anti-Zionism|History of Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser|International propagation of Salafism and Wahhabism|Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict|Petro-Islam|Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world|Siege of Mecca in 1979|Six-Day War|Yom Kippur War|War of Attrition}}File:AtatÃ¼rk Kemal.jpg|thumb|right|Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk, the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive (AtatÃ¼rk’s Reforms|reforms]], which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation.{{Citation |title=AtatÃ¼rk, Kemal |date=2014 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldencyclopedi00oxfo |encyclopedia=World Encyclopedia |publisher=Philip’s |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001 |isbn=9780199546091 |access-date=9 June 2019 |url-access=registration}}{{Citation |last=Books |first=Market House Books Market House |title=AtatÃ¼rk, Kemal |date=2003 |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhointwentie00brig |work=Who’s Who in the Twentieth Century |editor-last=Books |editor-first=Market House |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780192800916.001.0001 |isbn=9780192800916 |access-date=9 June 2019}})Following World War I, the defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, and the subsequent abolition of the Caliphate by Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk, founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, many Muslims perceived that the political power of their religion was in retreat. There was also concern that Western ideas and influence were spreading throughout Muslim societies. This led to considerable resentment of the influence of the European powers. The Muslim Brotherhood was created in Egypt as a movement to resist and harry the British.Between the 1950s and the 1960s, the predominant ideology within the Arab world was pan-Arabism, which de-emphasized religion and encouraged the creation of socialist, secular states based on Arab nationalist ideologies such as Nasserism and Baathism rather than Islam.BOOK, Browers, Michaelle L., 2010, Retreat from secularism in Arab nationalist and socialist thought, Political Ideology in the Arab World: Accommodation and Transformation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Middle East Studies, 31, 19â€“47, 10.1017/CBO9780511626814.003, 9780511626814, 2009005334, 153779474, However, governments based on Arab nationalism have found themselves facing economic stagnation and disorder. Increasingly, the borders of these states were seen as artificial colonial creations - which they were, having literally been drawn on a map by European colonial powers.Today, many Islamist and Islamic democratic political parties exist in most Muslim-majority countries, alongside numerous insurgent Islamic extremist, militant Islamist, and terrorist movements and organizations.JOURNAL, Badara, Mohamed, Nagata, Masaki, November 2017, Modern Extremist Groups and the Division of the World: A Critique from an Islamic Perspective, Arab Law Quarterly, Leiden, Brill Publishers, 31, 4, 10.1163/15730255-12314024, free, 1573-0255, 305â€“335, BOOK, Cook, David, David Cook (historian), 2015, 2005, Radical Islam and Contemporary Jihad Theory,books.google.com/books?id=SqE2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93, Understanding Jihad, Berkeley, California, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2nd, 93â€“127, 9780520287327, 10.1525/j.ctv1xxt55.10, 2015010201, JOURNAL, Zubaidah Rahim, Lily, 2006, Discursive Contest between Liberal and Literal Islam in Southeast Asia, Capano, Giliberto, Howlett, Michael P., Michael P. Howlett, Jarvis, Darryl S. L., Ramesh, M., Policy and Society, Taylor & Francis, 25, 4, 77â€“98, 10.1016/S1449-4035(06)70091-1, free, 1839-3373, 2009205416, 834913646, 218567875, Both of the following terms, Islamic democracy and Islamic fundamentalism, lump together a large variety of political groups with varying aims, histories, ideologies, and backgrounds.

Contemporary movements

Some common political currents in Islam include:

Sunni Traditionalism, which accepts traditional commentaries on the Quran, hadith literature, and sunnah, and “takes as its basic principle imitation (taqlid), that is, refusal to innovate”, follows one of the four legal schools or Madh’hab (ShafiÊ½i, Maliki, Hanafi, Hanbali), and may include Sufism. An example of Sufi traditionalism is the Barelvi school in Pakistan.Olivier Roy, Failure of Political Islam, (1994) pp.30â€“31
Fundamentalist reformism or revivalism, which criticizes the Islamic scholastic tradition, the commentaries, popular religious practices such as visitation to and veneration of the shrines and tombs of Muslim saints, perceived deviations and superstitions; it aims to return to the founding scriptures of Islam.BOOK, Arjomand, Said A., The Search for Fundamentals, 1995, The Search for Fundamentals and Islamic Fundamentalism,books.google.com/books?id=Dx6hBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27, van Vucht Tijssen, Lieteke, Berting, Jan, Lechner, Frank, Dordrecht, Springer Verlag, 10.1007/978-94-015-8500-2_2, 27â€“39, 978-0-7923-3542-9, This fundamentalist reformism generally developed in response to a perceived external threat (for example, the influence of Hinduism on Islam). 18th-century examples of fundamentalist Muslim reformers are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi in British IndiaJOURNAL, Ibrahim, Hassan Ahmed, January 2006, Shaykh Muá¸¥ammad ibn Ê¿Abd al-WahhÄb and ShÄh WalÄ« AllÄh: A Preliminary Comparison of Some Aspects of their Lifes and Careers, Son, Joonmo, Thompson, Eric C., Asian Journal of Social Science, Leiden, Brill Publishers, 34, 1, 103â€“119, 10.1163/156853106776150126, 1568-5314, 1568-4849, 23654402, and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in the Arabian peninsula,ENCYCLOPEDIA, Laoust, H., Ibn Ê¿Abd al-WahhÄb, 1993, 2012, Bearman, P. J., Peri Bearman, Bianquis, Th., Thierry Bianquis, Bosworth, C. E., Clifford Edmund Bosworth, van Donzel, E. J., Emeri Johannes van Donzel, Heinrichs, W. P., Wolfhart Heinrichs, Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd, Leiden, Brill Publishers, 10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3033, 978-90-04-16121-4, BOOK, Haykel, Bernard, Bernard Haykel,books.google.com/books?id=q1I0pcrFFSUC&pg=PA231, Ibn â€›Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad (1703-92), 2013, BÃ¶wering, Gerhard, Gerhard BÃ¶wering, Crone, Patricia, Patricia Crone, Kadi, Wadad, Mirza, Mahan, Stewart, Devin J., Devin J. Stewart, Zaman, Muhammad Qasim, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 231â€“232, 978-0-691-13484-0, 3 November 2020, BOOK, Esposito, John L., John Esposito, 2004, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam,books.google.com/books?id=6VeCWQfVNjkC&pg=PA123, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad (d. 1791), New York City, New York, Oxford University Press, 123, 0-19-512559-2, 3 November 2020, WEB,www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e916,www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e916," title="web.archive.org/web/20160712051853www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e916,">web.archive.org/web/20160712051853www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e916, dead, July 12, 2016, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad - Oxford Islamic Studies Online, 2020, www.oxfordislamicstudies.com, Oxford University Press, 3 November 2020, founder of the Islamic doctrine and movement known as Wahhabism.Olivier Roy, Failure of Political Islam (1994), p. 31. Salafism and Wahhabism worldwide, the Deobandi school in South Asia (mainly Pakistan and Afghanistan), Ahl-i Hadith and Tablighi Jamaat in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan are modern examples of fundamentalist reformism and revivalism.
Islamism or political Islam, embracing a return to the sharia or Islamic law but adopting Western terminology such as revolution, ideology, politics, and democracy, and taking a more liberal attitude towards issues like jihad and women’s rights.Olivier Roy, Failure of Political Islam (1994), pp. 35-37. Contemporary examples include the Jamaat-e-Islami, Muslim Brotherhood, Iranian Islamic Revolution, Masyumi party, United Malays National Organisation, Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party and Justice and Development Party (Turkey).
Liberal and progressive movements within Islam generally define themselves in opposition to Islamist and Islamic fundamentalist political movements, but often embrace many of their anti-imperialist and Islam-inspired liberal reformist elements.BOOK, Kurzman, Charles, Charles Kurzman, 1998, Liberal Islam and Its Islamic Context,books.google.com/books?id=4n8HSe9SfXMC&pg=PA1, Kurzman, Charles, Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook, Oxford and New York City, New York, Oxford University Press, 1â€“26, 9780195116229, 37368975, Liberal Muslims affirm the promotion of progressive values such as democracy, gender equality, human rights, LGBT rights, women’s rights, religious pluralism, interfaith marriage,JOURNAL, Leeman, A. B., Spring 2009, Interfaith Marriage in Islam: An Examination of the Legal Theory Behind the Traditional and Reformist Positions,ilj.law.indiana.edu/articles/84/84_2_Leeman.pdf, live, Indiana Law Journal, Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 84, 2, 743â€“772, 0019-6665, 52224503,web.archive.org/web/20181123062516/https://ilj.law.indiana.edu/articles/84/84_2_Leeman.pdf, 23 November 2018, 24 October 2021, NEWS, Jahangir, Junaid, 21 March 2017, Muslim Women Can Marry Outside The Faith,www.huffingtonpost.ca/junaid-jahangir/muslim-women-marriage_b_15472982.html, live, The Huffington Post,web.archive.org/web/20170325020231/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/junaid-jahangir/muslim-women-marriage_b_15472982.html, 25 March 2017, 24 October 2021, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, and freedom of religion; opposition to theocracy and total rejection of Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism; and a modern view of Islamic theology, ethics, sharia, culture, tradition, and other ritualistic practices in Islam. Liberal Islam emphasizes the re-interpretation of the Islamic scriptures in order to preserve their relevance in the 21st century.

ShÄ«Ê¿aâ€”SunnÄ« differences

{{Further|Iranâ€“Saudi Arabia proxy conflict|Sectarian violence among Muslims}}According to the Iranian-American academic Vali Nasr, which serves as Majid Khaddouri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), political tendencies of ShÄ«Ê¿a and SunnÄ« Islamic ideologies differ, with SunnÄ« fundamentalism “in Pakistan and much of the Arab world” being “far from politically revolutionary”, primarily focused on attempting to Islamicize the political establishment rather than trying to change it through revolutionary struggle, whereas the ShÄ«Ê¿Ä«te conception of political Islam is strongly influenced by Ruhollah Khomeini and his talk of the oppression of the poor and class war, which characterized the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1978â€“1979):{{Blockquote

Iranian Revolution>Shia awakening of Iran, the years of sectarian tolerance were over. What followed was a Sunni-versus-Shia contest for dominance, and it grew intense. [...] The revolution even moved leftists in Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, and Lebanon to look at Islam with renewed interest. After all, in Iran, Islam had succeeded where leftist ideologies had failed. [...] But admiration for what had happened in Iran did not equal acceptance of Iranian leadership. Indeed, Islamic activists outside of Iran quickly found Iranian revolutionaries to be arrogant, offputting, and drunk on their own success. Moreover, Islamic fundamentalism

in Pakistan and much of the Arab world was far from politically revolutionary. It was rooted in conservative religious impulses and the bazaars, mixing mercantile interests with religious values. As the French scholar of contemporary Islam Gilles Kepel puts it, it was less to tear down the existing system than to give it a fresh, thick coat of “Islamic green” paint. Ruhollah Khomeini>Khomeini’s fundamentalism, by contrast, was “red“â€”that is, genuinely revolutionary.}}The American political analyst and author Graham E. Fuller, specialized in the study of Islamism and Islamic extremism, has also noted that he found “no mainstream Islamist organization (with the exception of [ShÄ«Ê¿a] Iran) with radical social views or a revolutionary approach to the social order apart from the imposition of legal justice.“Fuller, Graham E., The Future of Political Islam, Palgrave MacMillan, (2003), p.26

Guardianship of the Jurist of Shi’i Islam

{{see|Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist}}Guardianship of the Jurist (WilÄyat al-FaqÄ«h) is a concept in Twelver Shia Islamic law that holds that in the absence of (what Twelvers believe is) the religious and political leader of Islamâ€”the “infallible Imam”, who Shi’a believe will reappear sometime before Judgement Day) -- righteous Shi’i jurists (faqÄ«h),JOURNAL, Review by Hossein Modarressi, by THE JUST RULER OR THE GUARDIAN JURIST: AN ATTEMPT TO LINK TWO DIFFERENT SHICITE CONCEPTS by Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Julyâ€“September 1991, 3, 3, 549â€“562, 604271,www.jstor.org/stable/604271, 31 July 2022, should administer “some” of the “religious and social affairs” of the Shi’i community. In its “absolute” formâ€”the form advanced by the Ayatollah Ruhollah KhomeiniWEB, Algar, Hamid, Hooglund, Eric, VELAYAT-E FAQIH Theory of governance in ShiÊ¿ite Islam.,www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/velayat-e-faqih, Encyclopedia.com, 31 July 2022, and the basis of government in Islamic Republic of Iranâ€”the state and society are ruled by an Islamic jurist (Ali Khamenei as of 2022).A variation of Islamism, the theory holds that since sharia law has everything needed to rule a state (whether ancient or modern),Khomeini, Islamic Government, 1981: p.137-8 and any other basis of governance will lead to injustice and sin,Khomeini, Islamic Government, 1981: p.31-33 a state must be ruled according to sharia and the person who should rule is an expert in sharia.Abrahamian, Ervand, Khomeinism : Essays on the Islamic Republic by Ervand Abrahamian, p.34-5The theory of sovereignty of the Guardianship of the Jurist (in fact of all Islam) explained by at least one conservative Shi’i scholar (Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi), is contrasted with the theory of sovereignty in “most of the schools of political philosophy and other cultures”. Non-Muslim cultures hold that “every man is free”, and in democratic cultures in particular, “sovereignty ... belongs to the people”. A ruler and government must have the consent of the governed to have political legitimacy. Whereas in fact, sovereignty is God’s. The “entire universe and whatever in it belongs to God ... the Exalted, and all their movements and acts must have to be in accordance with the command or prohibition of the Real Owner”. Consequently, human beings “have no right to rule over others or to choose someone to rule”, i.e. choose someone to rule themselves.BOOK, Mesbah-Yazdi, Mohammad-Taqi, Sayyid ‘Abbas, Husayni, A Cursory Glance at the Theory of Wilayat al-Faqih, 2010, Ahlul Bayt World Assembly/Al-Islam.org,www.al-islam.org/cursory-glance-theory-wilayat-al-faqih-muhammad-taqi-misbah-yazdi/chapter-1-wilayat-al-faqih, 25 August 2022, 1: Wilayat al-Faqih, Exigency and Presuppositions, In an Islamic state, rule must be according to God’s law and the ruler must be best person to enforce God’s law. The people’s “consent and approval” are valuable for developing and strengthening the Islamic government but irrelevant for its legitimacy.

Notes

References

Sources

The following sources generally prescribe to the theory that there is a distinct 20th-century movement called Islamism:

“Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews” Khalid Duran with Abdelwahab Hechiche, The American Jewish Committee and Ktav, 2001
The Islamism Debate Martin Kramer, 1997, which includes the chapter www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/Mismeasure.htm" title="web.archive.org/web/20021105103222www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/Mismeasure.htm">The Mismeasure of Political Islam
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook, Charles Kurzman, Oxford University Press, 1998
The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder, Bassam Tibi, Univ. of California Press, 1998

The following sources challenge the notion of an “Islamist movement”:

Edward Said, Orientalism
Merryl Wyn Davies, Beyond Frontiers: Islam and Contemporary Needs
G. H. Jansen, Militant Islam, 1980
Hamid Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought

These authors in general locate the issues of Islamic political intolerance and fanaticism not in Islam, but in the generally low level of awareness of Islam’s own mechanisms for dealing with these, among modern believers, in part a result of Islam being suppressed prior to modern times.

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Islam and Politics from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives
Liberal Democracy and Political Islam: The Search for Common Ground
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Evaluating the Islamist movement by Greg Noakes, an American Muslim who works at the Washington Report.
Muslim scholars face down fanaticism by Aicha Lemsine, an Algerian journalist and author.
Peter Krogh discuses Islam and politics with John L. Esposito and Mary Jane Deeb on Great Decisions (1994).

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Political aspects of Islam

Pre-modern Islam

Origins of Islam

Quran

Islamic State of Medina

Early Caliphate and political ideals

Election or appointment

Majlis ash-Shura

Separation of powers

Obedience and opposition

Sharia and governance (siyasa)

ShÄ«Ê¿a tradition

Kharijite tradition

Modern era

Reaction to European colonialism

Modern political ideal of the Islamic state

Compatibility with democracy

General Muslim views

Islamic political theories

20th and 21st centuries

Contemporary movements

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Guardianship of the Jurist of Shi’i Islam

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