Ali ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi (c. 974-1058) was a Muslim jurist of the Shafii school and Ashari theologian of the Islamic Golden Age who served as chief judge, qadi, of the Abbasid Caliphate and as a diplomat for the caliph. He is regarded as the founder of Islamic political science and the first writer devoted to Islamic political theory, chiefly through his treatise al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyyah, The Ordinances of Government, the first Islamic jurisprudential work devoted solely to governance. His work influenced later scholars including Ibn Khaldun.
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