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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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The philosophy of the theory of sovereignty.

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Legal scholars initially defined sovereignty

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as a characteristic inherent to authority,

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implying that there is no other authority higher than the existing one,

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nor any authority equal to it.

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Thus, the concept of sovereignty in this sense was negative,

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meaning it did not assign specific contents or attributes to sovereignty,

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but rather relied on stripping this quality

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from anything other than the ruling authority.

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Thereafter, it did not take long for legal scholars

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to define sovereignty as the supreme commanding authority of the state itself,

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rather than merely a characteristic of authority.

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They subsequently established specific contents and attributes for it,

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and attributed it to the Ummah or the people,

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albeit with detailed differences regarding this.

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In doing so, they wrested sovereignty away from the monarch or the ruler,

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and reduced him to a mere official executing the will of the Ummah or the people.