The BookAl-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah is both the single most comprehensive account of the workings of Islamic Governance and equally a highly influential theoretical outline of the nature of that governance.
Woven throughout it are accounts of the scholars of the salaf which are the book.
It is also as if it were a snapshot of the inner workings of Abbasid power at its height.
The BookAl-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah is both the single most comprehensive account of the workings of Islamic Governance and equally a highly influential theoretical outline of the nature of that governance