The Concept of Sovereignty between Western and Islamic Political Thought – A Comparative Study
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Abstract
With the rise and emergence of the concept of sovereignty in western political thought, there are many arguments and difference tendency about it, particularly in its source, even sometimes in the Islamic political thought have the same view, because of its position in both perspectives, which has become the significance to the thinkers, scholars had a lot of controversies about it. In this study, try to explain and clarify different theories and perspectives according to the historical progress of the concept due to the conflicts that dominated the western political Thought, which embodied in the solution of the conflict between kings and religious men. In contrast, sovereignty in Islam, usually, is completely different term if compared to western political thought, which its foundation and return to the texts of Shariah Rules, with the definite of the role and position of the individual in the system which found on this base. In terms of the history of the use and rise of sovereignty (Hakimiyyah), the term is of relatively recent origin, but its meaning and roots can be traced back to much earlier times, as well as, the concept of sovereignty being sought to compare through two different perspectives.