Al Ahkam As Sultaniyyah: The laws of Islamic Governance

by Abul Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad Mawardi.

The Book Al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah is both the single most comprehensive account of the workings of Islamic governance and equally a highly influential theoretical outline of the nature of that governance. It is also as if it were a snapshot of the inner workings of Abbasid power at its height.

Woven throughout it are accounts of the scholars of the salaf which are the book’s life, blood, and light.