Contemporary Islamic political thought experimented with the caliphate-sultanate system, constitutional monarchy, republic, Islamic state, Islamic democracy and Islamic radicalism....

This article investigates how Max Weber’s theory of value conflict is connected to his realist understanding of politics and how he conceives the relation of politics and ethics...

The change of the rulers in Islamic states points to a phenomenon in which the important issues of political thought, such as legitimacy, obedience-opposition balance, rebellion to power, the possibility to dethrone the head of the state and its legal position in the sharia, are intertwined...