The Constitution of Medina and Its Civilizational Significance in Building Social Solidarity

The Constitution of Medina and Its Civilizational Significance in Building Social Solidarity

Section: Article
Issue
Vol. 6 No. 22 (2026): issue 22
Pages
704-677

Abstract

The city document established by the Messenger r is the first base and the basic building block that represents the constitution of the new Islamic state, and it is considered one of the most important and first constitutions in the world and the first list calling for the rights of society in the history of Arabs, the contract of an advanced citizen on its era, and a bright sign in the history of Islamic and human civilization, it contained many items, regulations and instructions during which he organized the relationship between the sons of one Muslim community and among Muslims and other other religions such as Jews The residents of Medina at that time, and showed the rights and obligations of each of the individuals residing in Medina by documenting and building the principle of rights and duties.


The question we are discussing here is whether organizing social solidarity in any society helps in paving the way for the establishment of the state, and what are the civilizational values ​​and lessons that we derive from organizing social solidarity? Therefore, it is time for this society to return to what it was previously, that society which graduated from the school of prophecy and drank from its sweet spring and through which all good was achieved for humanity at a time when it was in dire need of it.

Keywords:

the city constitution, social solidarity, the city community, immigrants and supporters, the Jews of the city, rights and duties

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Omar Sultan Jerjees

Sunni Endowment Diwan / Sunni Endowment Department / Nineveh / Mosul - Iraq

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