Associate professor of Islamic sciences and culture institute
Abstract
Sovereignty is regarded as a fundamental element in the concept of “government-country” so that some persons have generally considered it in parallel with the territory, people and government in the direction of the development of government and some others have regarded it identical with the government. Nonetheless, in view of Islamic sources particularly jurisprudential sources and in accordance with this definition derived out of this concept, it should be investigated whether the political sovereignty is regarded as an inevitable and absolute issue or not. Considering the literal meaning and some idiomatic definitions of “sovereignty”, it has been studied the absoluteness and determination of sovereignty via taking the proofsand the evidences into account and it has been clarified that the domain of authority and resolve of sovereignty is not an absolute issue even regardless of its extensiveness and it has been revealed the proportion of determination of sovereignty and absolute Wilayat in this regard.
)