The Principles of State and Government in Islam

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 110 pages
• Published by: Islamic Book Trust January 1, 1980
• ISBN 10 Number: 9839154095
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-9839154092
• Book Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 7.2 ounces

Product Description
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 principles that underlie the constitution of Islamic state imperative. This book is an attempt to keep that discussion alive.

About The Author
Muhammad Asad, born Leopard Weiss in the Polish city of Lvov in 1900, was the grandson of an orthodox Rabbi. By this early twenties he could write and read German, Franch and Polish languages. He took to journalism and travelled Middle East as the correspondent of 'Franfurter Zeitung' of Germany.

After his conversion to Islam, he again travelled and worked throughout the Muslim world, including Arabia, Iran, Jordan, North Africa and Pakistan, In 1953 he was appointed as Pakistan's plenipotentiary to the United Nations. He moved to Morocco where he completed his magnum opus, the 'Message of the Qur'an.' He later settled in Lisbon where he died on 20th February 1992.

Asad's other works include 'Islam at the Crossroads', 'Road to Mecca,' Principles of State and Government in Islam', and 'Sahih Bukhari: Early Years of Islam.'

Reader Reviews
Muhammad Asad is my favourite Muslim author. He writes clearly and without ambugiaty. This books is based on an essay Asad wrote while working for the new Pakistan state in the 1940's. The author argues clearly for a change in attitude from Muslims, whether scholar or layman, that a true Islamic revival can only come about from going back to the Qur'aan and Sunnah and rejecting the schools of fiqh, which by their very nature are no longer relevant to the needs of our times. Clearly influeced by the Zaaheeri school of thought, which only follows the nass injuctions of the Qur'aan and Sunnah, he argues many Muslims have become confused as to what the true Shari'ah is and what are fiqhi derivitives of the various schools of thought. And because there is such a lack of homogenity from various factions of the Muslims community, he argues the situation will never change until Muslims reconcile themselves to the true tennets of the Shar'ah.