Articles

Missionaries, orientalists and other hostile creatures have spent their lifetime trying to distort the Sirah of the Prophet (ﷺ) and failed. The greater failure lies with the Muslims, by omission. By failing to see the larger picure, they are missing out on the totality of the Sirah.

In this continuous series of articles, Mohamed Ousman places authority in the context of obedience to Allah and His Prophet. No human being can operate outside this framework and claim legitimacy.

In this concluding article of the 8-part series, bay‘ah, governance, and the Islamic Movement are compared with liberal democratic legitimacy theory. There are fundamental differences between the two.