Buletin Al-Turas
Vol 17, No 1 (2011): Buletin Al-Turas

Mu'awiyah: Penggagas Pertama Sistem Monarki dalam Islam

Nurhasan, Nurhasan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jan 2011

Abstract

The controversy of who proposed the first idea of monarcy in Islam is resolved. Classical sources mentioned that the first initiator was Mughirah ibn Shu'bah, but is was refuted because it was not rational and anachronic (not in order of time). Other sources mention Mu'awiyah was the first to initiate the idea of monarcy in Islam. He was the caliph who nwas able to organize traditional authory of arabic tribes (the authority of a tribal shaykh) into a kind of kingdom. THe first thing he did was to create the caliphate system that has been running since the days of caliphate (Khulafa Rasidun) as caliphate plus kingdom (khilafat al-mulk). This makes the leader not only as calliph but also as king. As the Caliph, Mu'awiyah cannot actually be called as "king", but more to the most prominent Arab lelader (as primus inter pares). However, Mu'awiyah managed to build a new government system in Islam, namely monarchy.

Copyrights © 2011






Journal Info

Abbrev

al-turats

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JOURNAL BULETIN ALTURAS (ISSN 0853-1692; E-ISSN: 2579-5848) is open access journal that is published by Faculty of Adab and Humanities, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. It serves to disseminate research and practical articles that relating to the current issues on the study of history, literature, ...