Theocratic Authority in Ali Badr's Novels

Abstract

Theocracy is the unification of two authorities, political and religious, and it is better to use theocratic authority; because ((we do great injustice to religion when we attribute to it such an absolute and arbitrary rule that takes people’s necks in the name of divine will, as there is no religion among the major heavenly religions that one goes to or adheres to, but rather in every era a group of followers of this religion or that has appeared who resort to interpreting some religious texts and presenting personal efforts and subjective interpretations that enable them to reach power, so they have the reins of affairs, and they use in most cases the most despicable ways: such as intrigues, murder and bribery, attracting people with money or terrorism, hypocrisy and lying to God)) The novelist focused in his narrative works, the sample of the research, on the extremist religious authority where fanaticism prevails and the noose tightens on people, as it is an extremist authority that seeks to achieve its interests by various means, and he portrayed this aspect well in some novels that shed light on a dark era in the country’s contemporary history.