Modjtaba Garavand; Mohammad Amraei
Abstract
Badr al-Din Ibn Jamaeh (639-733A.H) was Qazi al-Qozzat (the Islamic title for the judge of judiciary) in Damascus and Cairo, living the time when the Mongol invaded the Islamic lands ...
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Badr al-Din Ibn Jamaeh (639-733A.H) was Qazi al-Qozzat (the Islamic title for the judge of judiciary) in Damascus and Cairo, living the time when the Mongol invaded the Islamic lands and overthrew the Abbasid’s caliphate in Baghdad. This event created a great deal of concern among the Muslim scholars and jurisprudents. It was for the first time that the large part of Islamic land came under the non-Muslim domination. Under the circumstances, it was only natural that the supporters of caliphate institution, considering the religious thought take account of the theory of political system in Islam in order to find out the religious justification for the new political situations. The Sunni thinkers supporting the caliphate institution, tried for justifying the religious and theoretical of the political system of current condition. The present research attempts to clarify the political theories and thoughts by Ibn-Jamaeh through the descriptive-analytical method. The current article shows that the political and social changes of the era in which Ibn Jamaeh lived, were the motivations leading him to render his political views and despite the fact that the institution of Islamic caliphate literally vanished away, took the issue of Islamic caliphate into his consideration and presented his ideas and thoughts about it.
