The contemporary emergence of a number of Asian and African states claiming to be successor states of the traditional Islanmic world and resolved to promote Islamic solidarity has renewed the interest in the nature of and Islamic state. A state may be defined as Islamic in which Islam is expressly or implicitly declared to be the religion of the state and where policies and administration are conducted in accordance with the spirit of Qur’an and Sunnah and not in contravention of them. An Islamic political system is supposed to have, among other, the following features.