The crisis of legitimacy in Ibn Taymiyyah's views

Political legitimacy is the process by which power becomes authoritarian and political power acquires a rational character; As a result, there is a fundamental relationship between legitimate domination and political legitimacy. The importance of the issue of "legitimacy" lies in the fact that the stability and survival of the political system depends on the realization of its legitimacy, and therefore every government tries to strengthen the foundations of its "legitimacy". The depiction of a legitimate government, as the policy of Islamic governments, was the goal pursued by Islamic thinkers and thinkers. In this direction, people like Ibn Taymiyyah, who sought to create a jurisprudential-political current through their specific jurisprudential and political views, and of course their extremism, also sought to create a new understanding of political legitimacy in Islamic society. In explaining and applying the concept of legitimacy in Ibn Taymiyyah's views, it should be noted that legitimacy in Ibn Taymiyyah's opinions is devoid of any specific coherence and policy. . In other words, what should be criticized in Ibn Taymiyyah's views is not his views on legitimacy; Rather, the vacuum of legitimacy is the most important objection that can be made to Ibn Taymiyyah's views. In this discourse, we seek to examine the fact that Ibn Taymiyyah's views are associated with a serious crisis called the vacuum of legitimacy, because he did not have a proper understanding of the concept of legitimacy in a politico-religious structure.