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Article: The "Islamic state": genealogy, facts, and myths.
- Article from:
- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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The concepts of "Islamic state" and "Islamic government" form the cornerstone of much of Islamist doctrine today; that is, the doctrine of those Muslim activists who adhere to political Islam. Most Islamists assert that these concepts were part and parcel of the lexicon of the earliest Islamic political-thought and that a full-blown version of them, consonant with ideas prevalent now in Islamist literature of a particularly strident kind, was available in the first century of Islam. Because of the early and thus "authentic inception of these concepts in the Islamic milieu, many (but not all) Islamists further maintain that these concepts militate against the modern notion ...