book argues that government should be run in accordance with traditional Islamic law (sharia), and for this to happen a leading Islamic jurist (faqīh) must...

Islamic government may refer to: A form of government practised by states which call themselves Islamic republics. Caliphate Islamic democracy Sharia Law...

The government of Afghanistan, officially called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is the central government of Afghanistan, a unitary state. Under the...

with political Islam (Islamism). Notable examples of historical Islamic states include the state of Medina, established by the Islamic prophet Muhammad...

currently one of the three governments using the title Islamic republic. The Islamic Republic of Iran was created shortly after the Islamic Revolution. The first...

The first Islamic State, also known as State of Medina was the first Islamic state established by Islamic prophet Muhammad in Medina in 622 CE under the...

Islamic republic has been used in different ways. Some Muslim religious leaders have used it as the name for a form of Islamic theocratic government enforcing...

pan-Islamic political unity and the creation of Islamic states. In its original formulation, Islamism described an ideology seeking to revive Islam to...

Islamic revival (Arabic: تجديد tajdīd, lit., "regeneration, renewal"; also الصحوة الإسلامية aṣ-Ṣaḥwah l-ʾIslāmiyyah, "Islamic awakening") refers to a...

Following the March 1979 Islamic Republic referendum, in which 98% approved the shift to an Islamic republic, the new government began drafting the present-day...