Taqī al-Dīn al-Nabhānī

تقي الدين النبهاني

1909–1977 · Palestine / Jordan / Lebanon · Islamic jurist, judge, political thinker, founder of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Taqī al-Dīn al-Nabhānī was born in 1909 in Ijzim, near Haifa in Ottoman and then Mandatory Palestine, to a family of scholars. His maternal grandfather was the poet and jurist Yūsuf al-Nabhānī. He went to Cairo in 1928 and studied at al-Azhar and at Dār al-ʿUlūm, finishing in the early 1930s. He then taught in Haifa and Hebron and served as a judge in the Sharia courts of Haifa, Ramla and Jerusalem. After 1948 he lived in Jordan and Lebanon.

In 1953 (one source says 1952) he founded Hizb ut-Tahrir in Jerusalem, a party that aims to restore the caliphate and to rule by Islamic law. He wrote its key texts, among them Niẓām al-Islām (The System of Islam), al-Dawla al-Islāmiyya (The Islamic State), al-Shakhṣiyya al-Islāmiyya (The Islamic Personality) and Muqaddimat al-dustūr (Introduction to the Constitution). These set out a comprehensive theory of Islamic government, economics and society. He spent his later years in Beirut, where he died in December 1977.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in a number of countries, including the United Kingdom (2024), Germany, Russia and Indonesia. The archive lists his writings as works of political thought, and their inclusion is no endorsement of the movement. The Party’s books carry no author’s name, so the attribution of each to him is noted on its page, and books by other Party writers are left out. The files come from the Party’s own sites and from third-party uploads.

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BOOK 1953 · Arabic

Al-Dawla al-Islamiyya الدولة الإسلامية

Describes how the Prophet founded the state in Madina and presents the Party’s account of the caliphate.

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al-Nabhānī, Taqī al-Dīn. Al-Dawla al-Islamiyya. 1953. hizb-ut-tahrir.org (official site), http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/PDF/AR/ar_books_pdf/Dawlah10072026.pdf. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/taqiuddin-nabhani/#taqiuddin-nabhani-al-dawla-al-islamiyya-ar