Removal of despotic political regime: the Abū Dharr’s legacy and its legitimacy

• Main Authors: Jani, Mohd. Shah, Fatah Yasin, Raudlotul Firdaus
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia 2020
• Subjects: BP1 Islam; BP173.7 Islam and politics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/81073/1/81073_Removal%20of%20Despotic%20Political%20Regime.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/81073/2/81073_Removal%20of%20Despotic%20Political%20Regime_WOS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/81073/12/81073_Removal%20of%20despotic%20political%20regime_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/81073/; https://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/id/article/view/1571

This article is a humble attempt at highlighting the controversies regarding the legitimacy of popular resistance or revolutionary movement to bring down Muslim political regime that claimed to be despotic, unjust and even un-Islamic. Having the fact on the existence of another view by majority scho...