The Jurisprudential Explanation of National Citizenship with Emphasis on the Idea of Islamic Statism and Ordinances

National citizenship is among legal institutions in the Iran’s legal system which has its supporters and opponents. Its opponents believe that there was no possibility of the existence of such institutions in Islam and had no background in the history of Islam. In contrast, its supporters, giving reasons for the possibility and necessity of the existence of such an institution in Islam as well as in Islamic government, lay emphasis on its existence in the Islamic sciences and in the history of Islam. The main question of this article is that whether the national citizenship is justifiable from the jurisprudential perspective or not. To answer the question, attempts have been made to establish the authority and legitimacy of national citizenship through explaining Islamic statism and Islamic ordinances. To do so, the writer tries to put forward the subject ‘national citizenship’ in the forms of ‘primary, governmental and secondary rules’ drawing upon the library as well as analytic-descriptive methods, claiming that national citizenship is to be explained and established as an example of the primary rule in Islam.