An Essay on the Statements about the Legitimacy of Political System in the Islamic Perspective

According to the monotheistic view of Islam, there is a special theory on the Islamic rule and the guardianship of Islamic community which is of a basis in the theory of the legitimacy of political system distinguished from the legitimacy bases in non-religious thoughts and which is devoid of ambiguities and defects lie in the theories talked about in the political thought in the west. This essay, which is contrastive in nature, has madesome critical remarks on rival theories. In addition, the criticisms levelled at the Islamic view such as “the question of theory of rights and the individuals” role in it, “the question of the contradiction between general supervision and the God-given legitimacy” and a “misgiving on the impossibility of individual people’s participation in administrative andspecialized structures of society under a government in which the ruler’s permission for control and intervention is granted by God with respect to the preference and priority in order of those who show more commitment to religious injunctions and regulations and who are more competent in running the affairs, have been scrutinized with this aim in mind to provide logical and rational answers for the questions and doubts mentioned above and to highlight the fact that the Islamic view is transcendent taking priority over the others.