As talks of the Islamic system, the Islamic Shariah, and the Islamic State, are reverberating throughout the Muslim World today, this book has now acquired a special relevance, because it deals principally with these very themes. Ibn Taymiyah is one of the very few original and distinguished political thinkers in Islam. In this book, his achievements have been evaluated in this field and his real contributions to Islamic political thought. This book is perhaps the first attempt at presenting a systematic and objective study of the political philosophy of Ibn Taymiyah one of the greatest original thinkers. The work is very carefully documented from original Arabic sources and hardly a proposition has been made in it without a reliable authority being cited as its basis.