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Synopsis The esteemed author of this work Muhammad Hamidullah needs no introduction. He is an internationally known scholar whose contributions to the study and interpretation of Islam and its laws and value system, based on original sources, are too well known and numerous to be recounted. One of main areas of his specialization is constitutional law and international law in Islam and concept and conduct of Islamic/Muslim State. This work is a continuation of his studies in this field. In June 1987, Muhammad Hamidullah visited Islamabad at the invitation of the Pakistan Hijra Council to give benefit of his advice on the Council’s GREAT BOOKS PROJECT aimed at selecting and publishing, in English translation, one hundred important books of Islamic thought, culture and civilization. On that occasion, he kindly presented copies of one of his latest publications The Prophet’s Establishing A State And His Succession (‘Centre Cultural Islamique Series, Paris, No. 6, the Hyderabad Deccan print, 1406 H./1986), to the Chairman of the Hijra Council, the late Mr. A.K. Brohi, and to me.