Al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah - The Laws Of Islamic Governance By Abul-Hasan Al-mawardi------------------ Al-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 first community of Islam and the judgements of the early scholars of the salaf which are the book’s lifeblood and its light.