Tawhidic Approach in Government Good Governance: A Conceptual Analysis

While ‘good governance’ agenda as introduced by the world bank in 1989 is a result of conventional developmental theories and represents the contemporary kernel of truth on how to develop, hence becoming a fad du jour of many. it has since then become a means for any government to improve its governance and administration and was similarly used by the oppositions in certain countries to bring their government into accountability. the aim of this paper is to explore and analyze the islamic foundation principles and values underpinning the field of governance in an attempt to construct a new systemic 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 the principle of tawhid (unity of god), justice (‘adl) and maqasid al shari’ah (higher objective of shari’ah) by going beyond the narrow remit of classical and contemporary discussions produced on the topic, which propose a certain institutional model of governance based on the classical juristic (fiqh) method.