Parliamentary Rejection Was the Impetus for Hakimiyya
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Formulation of the claim
Shahrur holds that the starting point of hakimiyya in political Islam was the rejection of parliament and modern representative institutions.
Explanation
He interprets this rejection as a fear that Islamists would not be the majority and thus would not be able to legislate as they wished. Hence the reliance on “God’s hakimiyya” emerged as an alternative to popular representation. In his view, this is a political disclosure, not a doctrinal one, because it ties religion to the contest over power. Here, the concept becomes a means of excluding the public sphere rather than bringing it closer to values.
Its place in the episode’s argument
This atom serves to dismantle the relationship between religious discourse and the demand for authority.
Limits of the claim
It does not say that everyone who used the term was driven only by power, but rather that this was the historically influential impetus.
Brief evidence
“The primary impetus for the emergence of political hakimiyya… was the rejection of parliament.”
Close links
- Shahrur - Hakimiyya
- Shahrur - Ulū al-Amr
- Book: State and Society