This early twentieth-century treatise by the esteemed Ayatullah Aqa Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Na’iniis translated along with the 1955 Persian commentary on the treatise by the Iranian Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleqani. It takes into account two types of governance: the first a legitimate guardianship and the second a necessarily corrupted monopoly. Ayatullah Na’ini addresses the foundations of ‘truth’, the limitation of power during the occultation of the Imam, the function of constitutional governance, the nature of parliament and parliamentary representation, and the forces of despotism and how to overcome them. The treatise is a discussion of Islamic governance and its relationship to the ShiaIthna‘Ashari doctrine of Imammat, based on two basic principles: preservationof the domestic order and infrastructure, and safeguarding from foreign intervention or, in the lexicon of Islamic scholars, ‘preserving the essence of Islam’. With a Commentary from Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmoud Taleqani Translated by Lotfali Khonji and Mohammed Nafissi, Edited by Mohammed Nafissi
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3979-3
- Editorial: Edinburgh University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 128
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés