Contours of an Islamic State (PB)

Contours of an Islamic State highlights the true nature of an Islamic state in the light of the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and the exemplary conduct, both personal and collective, of the Prophet of Islam and the Rightly-Guided Caliphs. It explains that an Islamic state is not a theocratic polity as its critics assume. Instead, it is a welfare state in its truest sense, based on justice in totality and the concept of Tawheed (Oneness of God). The book also examines why an Islamic state could not be established anywhere in the world after a short period of the true caliphate.

Altaf Ahmad Azmi: Born in 1942 in Azamgarh (UP, India), he is a retired professor of Hamdard University, New Delhi. His areas of specialisation are Unani Medicine and Islamic Studies. At Hamdard, he was the dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Social Sciences, and also served as head of the Centre for History of Medicine & Science. He has authored more than two dozen books on different subjects of Islamic Studies and Medicine, besides a 3-volume commentary in Urdu on the Holy Qur’an. He was the editor of Hamdard’s journal “Studies in History of Medicine and Science”; and was a member of the Advisory Board (Medieval Period) at the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.