Can I ask you for some other opinion please, do you think that monarch of British empire has political weight???
In the world of national states, there are some global, natural and irreversible methods of determination that are not dependent on any particular system or nation...because someone as leader of the state, at least from outside and foriegn authorities he is perceived as leader of the state, what is widely perceived as political position...because he makes political decisions in the first place...
Political position is not bad or good in the fundament, there is no state and nation without politics, there are some concepts of anarchism that are free from politics, but never functional....
my passion is this subject, especially the political genius of the Safavids that are underrated, in my opinion, even in Iran itself...
Shia imamat is specific Islamic replica of the state...and it's not just about Shia, catholic entity is modeled to be replica of the state in western style...
secular and theocratic differentiated internal concepts are noticed at least from the time of Darius the Great...
Very long and interesting subject, if it's not OT...