THE IMAM AL-MAWARDI'S (364-450 H / 975-1058 AD) POLITICAL THOUGHTS

Abstract

Western thinkers believe that Muslim scholars were the pioneers of philosophical thought ethics, yet provide no significant contribution in the field of political thought. Furthermore, the former treat the latter as possessing no clear views on political thought and that religion and Islamic civilization have by no means political thought. This point of view is a faulty at all. Since sixteen and seventeenth century Europe failed to acknowledge the characteristics of Muslim political thought, such as Al-Mawardi.