Islamic Political Theory Volume 1 (Legislation)

The first of two volumes of a comprehensive exposition of Islamic political theory by the renowned scholar Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi, which deals with the importance of recognizing Islam as the basis of any just political theory, methods of implementing such a theory by the government, and comparing and contrasting this Islamic system with the system predominant in most Western and secular nations.

Under the legislation aspect of the Islamic political theory, the topics discussed include:The important questions in the realm of Islamic polityThe importance and exigency of discussing the Islamic political theoryThe station of politics in religionFreedom in IslamFreedom and its limit and boundaryThe structure and form of governmentThe status of laws in the religious systemLaw and the difference in outlook and originThe criterion of the law's credibilityThe difference in outlooks of Islam and the West on valuesThe fundamental difference in the outlooks of Islam and the West on lawThe West's materialistic outlook on lawThe Islamic government, challenges, and cultural plotsThe difference between the divine and atheistic cultures in the realm of law and freedomThe relationship between religious legislative lordship (rububiyyat-e tashri'i), and sovereignty and legislationThe requisites of legislation and its station in IslamThe distinctive features of Islam in the realm of politics and governmentA new portrait of the station of law and governmentIslam and democracyThe essence of the unity in humanity and the citizenship of citizens