A pathology of Islamic government from the viewpoints of Abo-al-Hassan Maoudi

Abo-al-Hassan Masoudi witnessed socio-political turmoil, early replacements of Islamic caliphs, policies againt wisdom and Islamic law, irreligious behaviors in his time. The type of researches he did about the rise and fall of societies, governments, and Indian, Chinese, and Iranian civilizations shows that he had political orientations in his historiography, especially in his book Morawwej al-Zahab. In other words, he did a pathological study of Islamic caliphs and evaluated both the factors of the strength and authority of efficient caliphs and the defects of the authority of these caliphs espacially those of the second period of the Abbasid caliphs. To him these defects are deviation from the path of religion, wise politics, and justice.