This issue is devoted to the phenomenon of power in Muslim communities.

Various concepts of power have been developed and implemented in the Muslim states for fourteen centuries. Communities of the faithful who found themselves in territories controlled by non-Muslim regimes are a special case. Some possible examples are the territories of Dar al-Islam states integrated in predominantly Christian states and Muslim migrant communities emerging in the territories that are new for them. In each specific case, they often developed their own model of power and built the concepts of separation of powers between the Muslim community and secular authorities at the national and regional levels.