Conceptualising Tadbir as a Constituent of Governance in Islam

The present-day Muslims, in addressing the contemporary issue of governance, may not necessarily nave to object to the way, or ways, it has been understood and defined by their Western counterparts. Yet, they can still offer a more rather refined description of it which, as this article suggests, may come in the form of tadbir being an essential constituent of governance. By elaborating on the concept projected by the term through a detailed explanation of its basic and derived meanings, both lexically and within the context of the Qur an and the Prophetic Traditions, as well as their various ethico-teleological implications, the article basically demonstrates that tadbir in the religious, intellectual and scientific tradition of Islam is both thinking and act which are organically aimed at obtaining good outcomes and, when specifically applied to man, means the intellectual deliberation over the outcome of an affair,; followed either by its implementation if the outcome is praiseworthy or its rejection if the result is estimated to be blameworthy