Journal of Liberty and International Affairs | Vol. 3, No. 3, 2018 | eISSN 1857-9760 Published online by the Institute for Research and European Studies at www.e-jlia.com 29 © 2018 Nikola Gjorshoski and Goran Ilik This is an open access article distributed under the CC-BY 3.0 License. Peer review method: Double-Blind Date of acceptance: January 18, 2018 Date of publication: February 24, 2018 Review article UDC 316.75:32]:28 Nikola Gjorshoski Faculty of Law, “St. Kliment Ohridski” University - Bitola ngjorshoski[at]gmail.com Goran Ilik Faculty of Law, “St. Kliment Ohridski” University - Bitola ilic_rm[at]yahoo.com Abstract The relation between religion and politics is a field of mutual interaction, as well as source and promoter of many historical, current and probably future political movements, parties, and organizations. Political Islam represents the old-new dimension in the spectrum of contemporary political ideologies with specific characteristic and own socio-political worldview which pretend to penetrate into countries with Muslim inhabitants. The authors analyze those value’s elements, their first term, and modern interpretation, as well as their indicators for change. Level and dynamic of society’s development in many cases are determinate in political ideologies and Political Islam tries to present itself in this light with affirmation of its/own postulates of organization and regulation on socio-political living. This paper in addition to analyzing on those values’ framework logically offers and review of political doctrine sources which concept Political Islam in the whole of its time-space aspects. Keywords: Political ideology, Political Islam, Shariа law, Islamic parties, Islamic movements, Islamic values INTRODUCTION The relationship between religion and politics has always been a field of a kind of double-sided interaction. Regardless of whether the valuable socio-political continuum of a given society perceives it as a positive or negative trait of the respective political system, no one can completely ignore the significance of religion in human life. When the modernization and industrial revolution in Western societies pushed the church away from the domain of political action and practice (or passivated while remaining in the sphere of