Islamic Governance: Governance of the Divinely-Sanctioned Social Order under Conditions of Religious Solidarity

The four volumes of Ayatollah Khamenei’s Islamic Governance provide the theoretical framework for authentic Islamic governance in the modern era that is deeply rooted in Islamic principles and in what makes us human. Authored by one of the foremost theoreticians and practitioners of the revolutionary Islamic movement that culminated in the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the book provides a genuine alternative both to the morally bankrupt liberal social order of the West, as well as to the defunct and sterile alternatives provided within the rest of the Islamic world. First principles (Volume One) begins by an explication of the theological based as to why God reserved the ordering of mankind’s affairs exclusively for Himself, and proceeds to discuss the institution of prophethood. It provides an in-depth definition of the Islamic keyword wilayah and of “those who are invested with authority (the Oul’ul-Amr)”. Ayatollah Khamenei then proceeds to explain the meaning and purp