The Republic of Indonesia is a rising great power in the Asia-Pacific, set to become the eighth largest economy in the world in the coming decades. It is the most populous Muslim majority country in the world. The largest Islamic organizations and parties have supported Indonesia's participation with global markets, but this has not come from an ideological support for capitalism or economic liberalization. Islamic political culture has denounced the injustices caused by global capitalism and its excesses. In fact, support for Indonesia's engagement with the international political economy...

The aim of this book is to explore and analyze the Islamic axioms, foundation principles and values underpinning the field of governance in an attempt to construct the architectonics of a new systemic and dynamic theory and formulate the articulation of Islamic governance . This discursive and abstract, rather than being an empirical exercise, assumes to produce a good governance framework within its own formulation through a value-shaped dynamic model according to maqasid al-Shari ah (higher objective of Shari ah) by going beyond the narrow remit of classical and contemporary discussions...