Introduction
Democracy is one form of government. The next sections of this article will explain and identify the forms of government and the attitude of Islamic law toward them. There are many different forms of government in existence. They are divided to many types, when the method of how the head of the country is taken into account, the government is divided into monarchy and republican governments as we will see in the first section, while the type of government is divided into autocracy, aristocracy and democracy, according to the number of people who hold political power as the second section will elaborate.