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Originally Posted by sixpakistan
apples or oranges?
shariah is a set of laws. democracy is a system of governance.
a better question might be 'representative democracy or caliphate?'
.. and, can a caliph be elected democratically, etc etc
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let me ask you something
don't fiqhi rulings depend on the cultural and social context of the environment? I mean, we hear things like, "imam fulan changed his fatwas when he moved from egypt to syria or hijaz to basra" etc etc.
well why is it that the ulema still rule in favor of establishing the khilafa when the imperial system does not exist anymore. Modern systems are all about nation states. So why khilafa? the most you can probably have is unions of nation states.