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Caliphate as A Political System: Historical Myth or Future Reality?

Caliphate as A Political System: Historical Myth or Future Reality?. By Tahir M. Qazi, MD. Caliph & Caliphate. Surah Nur V55:

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Caliphate as A Political System: Historical Myth or Future Reality?

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  1. Caliphate as A Political System: Historical Myth or Future Reality? By Tahir M. Qazi, MD

  2. Caliph & Caliphate Surah Nur V55: “Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant them in the land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion - the one which He has chosen for them ….” Translation by Abdullah Yusufali

  3. Caliph & Caliphate “The Caliph (Arabic: خليفة‎ ḫalīfah/khalīfah) is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the ruler of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliph (Accessed on August 12, 2014)

  4. Caliph & Caliphate

  5. Caliph & Caliphate “…. This makes it clear what the caliphate means. (To exercise) natural royal authority means to cause the masses to act as required by purpose and desire. (To exercise) political (royal authority) means to cause the masses to act as required by intellectual (rational) insight into the means of furthering their worldly interests and avoiding anything that is harmful (in that respect). (And to exercise) the caliphate means to cause the masses to act as required by religious insight into their interests in the other world as well as in this world.” The Meaning of Caliphate and Imamate The Muqaddima – Ibn-e-Khaldun

  6. Caliphate for what? Will Caliphate be Able to Solve Identity Crises? Will One Caliphate Work Across the Globe? Will One Caliphate Bridge Sectarian Divide? What is the Malaise in Muslim Societies?

  7. Nature of Malaise in Muslim Counties Material Poverty Intellectual Stagnation Political Weakness

  8. Comparison of Social Reality

  9. Result of Caliphate-Governance SeveketPamuk. Estimating GDP Ottoman Empire European Historical Economics Society 2007

  10. Questions in the Muslim World Peace of Westphalia 1648 Social Contract How to Limit Ruler to the Mundane only? Sovereignty – God or People?

  11. Spiritualization of Politics Coercive powers & rulers’ need for legitimacy Caliphate-model blends spirituality with State-Craft This blend obviates the need for additional legitimacy

  12. Secular Sacred Long View of History

  13. Khilafat-o-Malukiyat, the duties of the ruler: “To command people to be obedient to God’s edicts and prevent sinful behavior” and “To administer “Hudood imposed by God” MaulanaMaududi Khilafat-o-Malukiyat p289 EdaraTarjamn-ul-Koran

  14. Qazi’s maxim: World is composed of facts that steer history. Two major determinants of social and political stability - demography and geography.

  15. Most of population growth from poor countries.

  16. Does Caliphate Model has a solution to the geographically distant & culturally divers Muslims?

  17. What about a “Secular Caliph?

  18. Alexander Hamilton: “whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force”

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