Everything about Islamic Republic totally explained
Islamic Republic is the name given to several states in the Muslim world including the Islamic Republics of
Iran,
Pakistan,
Afghanistan and
Mauritania. Pakistan adopted the title under the constitution of 1956. Mauritania adopted it on
28 November 1958. Iran adopted it after the 1979
Islamic Revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy. Afghanistan adopted it after the 2001 overthrow of the
Taliban. Despite the similar name the countries differ greatly in their governments and laws.
The term "Islamic republic" has come to mean several different things, some contradictory to others. Theoretically, to many religious leaders, it's a
state under a particular
theocratic form of government advocated by some
Muslim religious leaders in the
Middle East and
Africa. It is seen as a compromise between a purely Islamic
Caliphate, and secular
nationalism and
republicanism. In their conception of the
Islamic
republic, the
penal code of the state is required to be compatible with some laws of
Sharia, and not a
monarchy as many Middle Eastern states are presently. In other cases, it's merely a symbol of cultural identity, as was the case when Pakistan adopted the title under the constitution of 1956. In fact many argue that an Islamic Republic strikes a middle path between a completely
secular and a theocratic (and/or Orthodox Islamic) system of government.
Iran's Islamic republic is in contrast to the semi-secular state of the
Republic of Pakistan (proclaimed as an Islamic Republic in
1956) where Islamic laws are technically considered to override laws of the state, though in reality their relative hierarchy is ambiguous.
Pakistan was the first country to adopt Islamic prefix to define its republican status under the otherwise secular constitution of 1956. Interestingly enough, despite this definition, the country didn't have state religion until 1973, when a new constitution, more democratic but less secular, was adopted. Pakistan only uses the "Islamic" name on its passports and visas. All government documents are prepared under the name of the
Government of Pakistan, however,
Islamic republic is specifically mentioned in the Constitution of 1973.
Today, the creation of an Islamic State is the rallying cry for many Muslims, including those described as
Islamists, all over the world. However the term itself has different meanings among various people. Many advocate the abolition of the
monarchies of the Middle East, regimes which they believe to be overly
authoritarian or otherwise repressive to Islam, in some cases, to be replaced with a unified and monolithic
Caliphate and in other cases Islamic Republics along national lines. There are many Muslims to whom the idea of a republic, Islamic or secular, itself is an antithesis of the Islamic form of governance.
Libya, while not actually self-styled as an Islamic republic, refers to itself similarly, as what can best be translated as an "Arab People's Republic", with somewhat more socialist overtones. The
United States Central Intelligence Agency translates the name, as the conventional long form, as the "
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya."
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) In either case, the result is essentially identical to any other country mentioned above.
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