The mission of Islam in the contemporary world : the liberation of the earth through reestablishment of the Caliphate

The aim of this paper is to show the Idealtypus of the Islamic politics, i.e., the Caliphate (Khilāfah), which is the key concept to understand the contemporary so-called Islamic movements because the Caliphate is still the normative Islamic polity binding on Muslims as The Encyclopedia of Islamic Jurisprudence (al-Mawsū'ah al-Fiqhīyah) which is endorsed by the Ministry of the Religious Endowments and Islamic Affairs of Kuwait clarifies that the establishment of the Caliphate is obligatory by consensus of Islam...