An Approach to the Legal-Political Structure of a Modern State in Islamic Countries

Two important components in recognition of status of political system and state in Islamic societies include: The concept of modernity and its legal-political structure, that means on the one hand of the modern state and on the other side of legal-political structures caused by Islamic thought. The detection and identification of patterns and how interaction of these two components in the construction of political system and state in the contemporary Islamic countries are the axial issue of the paper. Such that by assuming principle of integrity of social and political of Islam and effectiveness of the requirements of the modern state, and with by historical and theoretical analysis, patterns within them framework, Islamic societies was reacted to these two factors, in the form of the approachs of Fundamentalist (West-oriented-Salafi) and Modified-oriented are identifiable. Full understanding of these patterns, capacity of preparations for achieve to the Islamic desired state proportionate to living conditions in the modern transition of periods. This paper is the attempt in order to detection, proof and analysis of this hypothesis.