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Martino Fine Books The Principles of State and Government in Islam by Muhammad Asad
2016 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Although the Muslims are for the most part imbued with enthusiasm for the idea of a truly Islamic state that is a state based not on the concepts of nationality and race but solely on the ideology of the Quran and Sunnah they have as yet not realized a concrete vision of this form of government embodying a distinctly Islamic character. The very fact that none of the existing Muslim countries has so far achieved a form of government that could be termed genuinely Islamic makes a discussion of the principle which ought to underlie the constitution of Islamic state imperative. By surveying nearly fourteen hundred yearsbeginning with the Hijra the formal origin of the Islamic calendarthis book demonstrates how manifold forms of the Islamic state may emerge from Islamic foundations and how essentially any state that emerges to be truly Islamic must incorporate the doctrine of government by consent and counsel.show more