Before discussing how the position of women in the political
system of the Islamic world, before will be explained about what is meant by the
position of women in the political system. Experts give a definition of
politics as a process that goes with the state or government system. In the
dictionary of Liter (1870) for example, politics is defined as the science of
governing and governing the state. While in Robert's dictionary (1962) the
definition of politics is "the art of governing and governing human
society." Another concept says that politics is, "the way and effort
to deal with people's problems with a set of laws to realize the benefit and
prevent harmful things For the benefit of man ".
More explicit is what Imam Syahid
al-Banna expressed that politics not only concerns the administration of the
government, but also the pursuit of a clean and just system, in which the
control mechanism plays a major role, he says: "We are politicians with
the understanding that we are fighting for the affairs Our nation. We believe
that executive power is an integral part of Islam. It is within the scope
of Islamic law. And that political and nationalism is one of the joints and
obligations of Islam. Therefore we are obliged to fight for the integrity of
independence and the improvement of the executive apparatus. "(Shafiyyah
and Haryati, 2003: 19). So the purpose of women's position in the political
system is how the woman's position in terms of his involvement in the process
that goes with the state or government system.
