The Development of State Forms and Their Function in the Political Islamic Mind

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This paper discusses an important issue in political philosophy. Despite its historicity, it has current extensions, which gives it importance and value that does not become obsolete, whether in terms of scientific research, or even in terms of its impact on the lives of Muslims, whether in the past, present, and even in the future. By this, we mean the forms or manifestations that the state has taken in terms of theorizing and representation of the Islamic political mind, starting with the Prophetic state, passing through the various manifestations of the traditional state, Its components: Sunni and Shiite. There is no doubt that its dangerous effects on the lives of Muslims require reunderstanding it, as it is compatible with the spirit of the times on the one hand, and the realities of Islam and its political experiences on the other hand, which leads to questions about the nature of this state and its function, far from ideal perceptions, which do not exist. Except in the minds of its owners, and not in the perspective of the Islamic political mind, which was formed through important historical stations, drawing on internal and external experiences. Therefore, this paper seeks to raise a major question related to the way in which the state manifested itself in the Islamic political mind, and its relationship to its basic reference represented by Islam, and the extent of its compatibility with human experiences, whether those that preceded it or contemporaneous it.