The concept of political thought in Islamic knowledge

Abstract

It is clear that setting and defining the central concepts on which any study is based is in line with, and complements its course. There is no way to comprehend and analyze the study without understanding its basic terms and connotations, and since the term (political thought) is a central concept in our study, this research aims to address the term within the framework of Islamic knowledge, by dismantling the skeletal structure of the term and defining its conceptual components each separately, and then reconstructing it to find out its concept, and then formulating an adequate and simplified definition for the concept with the aim of adopting a path that contradicts some academic studies which gave priority importance to the definitions formulated by Western scholars and researchers about the concept of political thought, without resorting to a systematic mechanism that enables them to formulate it based on the views of Muslim scholars and writers about the two composite elements of the concept in question.

Based on the previous course, the current research deals with the definition of the two main components of the concepts thought and politics, from both, linguistic and idiomatic perspectives in two independent axes, while dealing with the concept of political thought in a third and final axis. We have reached a detailed conclusion that the essence of the sub-term of political thought was one of the basic topics that Muslim scholars and writers dealt with in various fields of knowledge, which contributed as a result, to identifying the concept of political thought and launching it as a modern term in the contemporary academic arena.