This article is about the issue of politics in the religion of Islam. For the movement "Political Islam", see Political Islam. For the movement "Islamism", see Islamism.
The political suggestions of Islam are a series of arguments developed on the basis of the recommendations of the ulema to the ruling class (Ulu'l-amr) through the statements of the Quran and hadith and the stories of the sirah, similar to the development of the concepts of sharia. Islamic studies do not reveal a specific Islamic identity and political attitude with sharp boundaries for the early period.[3] However, literature written in later periods and developed over centuries can provide a detailed conceptual basis for practice and guidance. Opinions regarding management emphasizes following of the religious/political leadership of Muhammad's successors, who, according to Sunnis, were chosen Caliphs by the representatives of the people (Arabic: أهل الحلّ والعقد, romanized: Ahl al-Ḥall wa’l-‘Aḳd; those who are qualified to unseated and to pledge allegiance), and according to Shiites, divinely chosen Imams through Muhammad's lineage; it also included the leader's obligation to comply with sharia and shura decisions and the condemnation[4] or removal of unjust rulers for some. Olivier Roy writes that
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).[5]
^Under the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem was built. There the word "Islam" appears for the first time. Until this moment the Muslims called themselves simply "believers", and coins were minted in the Arabic empire showing Christian symbols. Abd al-Malik also plays a major role in the reworking of the Quranic text. Patricia Crone / Michael Cook: Hagarism (1977) p. 29; Yehuda D. Nevo: Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State (2003) pp. 410-413; Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Hrsg.): Der frühe Islam. Eine historisch-kritische Rekonstruktion anhand zeitgenössischer Quellen (2007) pp. 336 ff.
^Abu Hamid al-Ghazali quoted in Mortimer, Edward, Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam, Vintage Books, 1982, p.37
^Roy, Olivier, The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk, Harvard University Press, 1994, p.29
^Litvak, Meir (2021). "Islamic Radical Movements and Antisemitism: Between Old and New". In Lange, Armin; Mayerhofer, Kerstin; Porat, Dina; Schiffman, Lawrence H. (eds.). An End to Antisemitism! – Volume 5: Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 133–148. doi:10.1515/9783110671964-009. ISBN9783110671964.