WAR, PEACE OR NEUTRALITY: AN OVERVIEW OF ISLAMIC POLITY’S BASIS OF INTER-STATE RELATIONS

There is an increase interest on islam in the field of international relations. the paper seeks to offer an overview to the basis of inter state relations between a muslim polity and other muslim or non-muslim polity. it presents three possible options that will be the basis of international relations for an islamic polity; war, peace and neutrality. it then argues that peace is the original basis and rejects the idea of perpetual war between islamic and non-islamic polity as espoused by jihadist groups.