Political Despotism and Its Impact on the Growth of the Suicide Phenomenon in Arab Societies: An Analytical Study in Light of the Higher Objectives of Sharia (Maqasid al-Sharia)

This study examines the structural relationship between political despotism and the rising phenomenon of suicide in contemporary Arab societies, offering a novel interdisciplinary framework that reconciles political sociology with the Higher Objectives of Sharia (Maqasid al-Sharia). Moving away from traditional, isolated psychological and clinical explanations, the paper adopts a dual approach combining a Critical Analytical Approach with a Maqasid Projective Approach to investigate how authoritarian governance functions as a macro-sociological determinant of self-destruction. To ensure conceptual clarity and scientific rigor, the study operationalizes highly qualitative terms such as "Existential Suffocation" and "Moral Killing" into measurable sociological indicators of extreme psychological alienation and systemic blockage of human agency.

Political Despotism, Suicide Phenomenon, Maqasid al-Sharia, Existential Suffocation

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