The article is devoted to the constitutional and legal study of the role of legislative authorities in the monarchical regimes of the Arab states, the identification and analysis of key trends that reflect the current state of the problem. Objectives of the study: the study of constitutional acts of Arab monarchies in order to determine the degree of influence of the Islamic legal doctrine on the institutions of legislative power; analysis of the constitutional status and powers of the bodies exercising the legislative function; identification of nature legal relations developing between the head of state and the legislative body of the country. Research methods: empirical, historical, comparative legal, systemic, formal‑legal methods. Research findings. The scope and nature of constitutional regulation of legislative institutions in modern Arab monarchies are complex and often contradictory, primarily due to the specifics of religious and socio‑political development in these countries during a particular historical period. At the same time, the lack of clear constitutional standards for the functioning of legislative bodies, which are characteristic primarily of classical parliamentary monarchies of Western model, gives the legislative structures of these states a distinctly regional character with a traditionally inherent tendency of their political leadership to balance between attempts at democratizing existing monarchical regimes and the desire to preserve broad prerogatives in the field of lawmaking. Conclusion. The institutions of legislative power in the monarchies of the Arab East bear a significant imprint of the classical Islamic legal heritage, closely intertwined with the traditional kinship‑based component of political authority, which allows such monarchies to be classified as parliamentary with very serious caveats.
Pavel Kolesnikov (Wed,) studied this question.