The Political Framework of Islam The political system of Islam is based on the three principles of towhid (Oneness of Allah), risala (Prophethood) and Khilifa (Caliphate). This right rests only with Allah. This principle of the Oneness of Allah makes meaningless the concept of the legal and political sovereignty of human beings. No individual, family, class or race can set themselves above Allah. Allah alone is the Ruler and His commandments constitute the law of …showed first 75 words of 568 total…

…showed last 75 words of 568 total…democratic state. Legislation in an Islamic state is to be carried out within the limits prescribed by the law of the Shari'a. It derives its authority directly from the Shari'a and is answerable to Allah. The decade of the 1980s was characterized by the rise of ultraconservative, politically activist Islamic movements in much of the Arab world. These Islamist movements, labeled fundamentalist in the West, sought the government institutionalization of Islamic laws and social principles.