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The Governmental System of the Prophet Muhmmad SAW

(A Comparative Study in Constitutional Law)

BY  Dr. Hashim Y.Al-Mallah

The majority of Muslims believe that the best era in their history was that of the Prophet Muhammad and his orthodox successors, and that the best rulers who ever governed Muslims are the Prophet and his successors. Therefore the Muslims in our own time are inspired by their works and words in many aspects of life, and hope still to follow their model behaviour. This attitude became clear immediately after the creation of Pakistan when the people began to discuss the necessity of establishing a constitution which should be based on the rules of Qur’an, the practice of the Prophet, and the precedents of his orthodox successors.

Yet the nature of the governmental system of the Prophet Muhammad is still ambiguous in the minds of Muslims, and it is hard to find any scientific study on this subject. Therefore it was felt that it might be useful to choose ‘The Governmental System of the Prophet Muhammad’ to be the subject of this work, and to study it in the light of the teories of state which are known in the field of constitutional law, in order to clarify the form and nature of ‘the Prophetic government’.

The book consists of five chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter explains how the Islamic state was established and extended to govern most of Arabia.