Kyriakos Th. Nikolaou-Patragas

University Teacher (PD 407/80)

Course Objectives

This module of the course aims to promote the understanding of the single permitted state organisation of the Ummah (community of the faithful), in terms of a strict Islamic orthodoxy. It is based on the practice of Prophet Mohammed and is particularly important, since this form of state governance has somehow penetrated all of the Islamic states. It was the foundation on which relied the Ottoman empire and is projected, on a daily basis, as a requirement of diligence by the movements of the so–called “political Islam”, as the only legitimate way of alternative governance.

Course Structure

1. State forms

2. The tribal form of governance

3. Governance at the time of the Prophet

4. Governance by the first descendants of the Prophet and the manifestation of the split of the Shiites

5. The concept of the Caliph

6. The distinction between Caliphate and Imamate

7. The theory of delegation and Ualaya

8. Executive power

9. The judiciary

10. The Holy war (Jihad)

11. The acquisition of the Caliphate by the Ottomans

12. The abolition of the Caliphate

13. Possibilities for a revival of the institution

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Αντωνίου Οικονομίδου, Πόλεμος και ειρήνη στο Ισλάμ, εν Αθήναις, Ι980.

Ηλίου Νικολακάκη, Τζιχάντ: Ο ιερός πόλεμος του Ισλάμ, εν Θεσσαλονίκη, 2003.

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