Author: Mohamad El Merheb Publisher: Edinburgh Studies in Classical ISBN: 9781474479646 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Covers the political thought produced by legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period as they tackled a central question: how best to govern their communities.
Author: Mohamad El-Merheb Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ayyubids Languages : en Pages : 644
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This thesis argues that the rule of law, limited government, and the theory of delegation were the main concerns of the political thought of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period (c. 1230 to 1330). It interprets and reclassifies Islamic authors outside the prevalent scholarly focus on genre and caliphal authority as two perennial themes of the history of Islamic political thought. The thesis in particular examines the interrelatedness between the production of political thought and the competition among the four legal schools (madhhabs) that intensified during this period. Authors with adabised and administrative outlooks presented distinct Shāfiʿī, Ḥanafī, Sufi, Mālikī, and Ḥanbalī strains of political thought, which resembled competing proposals for an official madhhab of the state, or an official law, or a set of constitutional guidelines to be followed by the rulers. The thesis explains how these authors emphasised the exceptionality of their political ideals, to whom they elected to present their works, and what they expected in return both individually and as members of wider social groups.Examining developments in intellectual history with a context of political and social histories entails the use of literary sources to understand the authors, the intellectual discourses of the period, the competition for salaried posts and patronage, and the use and misuse of theological and legal discourses in politics. This research refutes the notion that the Ayyubid and Mamluk period was one of intellectual paucity with few exceptions and argues instead that it was an opulent period with original and varied expressions of political thought. It relies on a wide corpus of manuscript sources of which many are unknown or understudied including political treatises, statecraft manuals, and mirrors for princes. It fills a significant gap in the study of the history of political thought between the classical and modern periods of Islam.
Author: Antony Black Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748688781 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 399
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Second edition of the history of Islamic political thought that traces its roots from early Islam to the current age of Fundamentalism (622 AD to 2010 AD).
Author: Thomas Philipp Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521591157 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
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In this book, distinguished scholars provide an accessible introduction to the structure of political power under the Mamluks and its economic foundations.
Author: Marinos Sariyannis Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900438524X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 608
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In A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century, Marinos Sariyannis offers a survey of Ottoman political literature, from its beginnings until the beginning of the Tanzimat reforms.
Author: Michael Winter Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004132863 Category : History Languages : id Pages : 488
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This volume is a collection of studies by leading historians on central aspects of the Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and of Ottoman Egypt (16th-18th century) where the Mamluks survived under the Ottoman suzerainty.
Author: Erwin I. J. Rosenthal Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 342
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Dr Rosenthal discusses the later Muslim philosophers who were influenced by the political thought of Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Greek thought modified the Islamic and yet was always subordinated to Muslim categories of thought and political needs. Dr Rosenthal thus surveys the chief traditions of Islamic political thought from the eighth to the end of the fifteenth centuries.
Author: Ovamir Anjum Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107378974 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 315
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This revisionist account of the history of Islamic political thought from the early to the late medieval period focuses on Ibn Taymiyya, one of the most brilliant theologians of his day. This original study demonstrates how his influence shed new light on the entire trajectory of Islamic political thought. Although he did not reject the Caliphate ideal, as is commonly believed, he nevertheless radically redefined it by turning it into a rational political institution intended to serve the community (umma). Through creative reinterpretation, he deployed the Qur'anic concept of fitra (divinely endowed human nature) to centre the community of believers and its common-sense reading of revelation as the highest epistemic authority. In this way, he subverted the elitism that had become ensconced in classical theological, legal and spiritual doctrines, and tried to revive the ethico-political, rather than strictly legal, dimension of Islam. In reassessing Ibn Taymiyya's work, this book marks a major departure from traditional interpretations of medieval Islamic thought.
Author: Gerhard Bowering Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691134847 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 704
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"In 2012, the year 1433 of the Muslim calendar, the Islamic population throughout the world was estimated at approximately a billion and a half, representing about one-fifth of humanity. In geographical terms, Islam occupies the center of the world, stretching like a big belt across the globe from east to west."--P. vii.
Author: Mohamad El Merheb
Author: Mohamad El-Merheb
Author: Antony Black
Author: Thomas Philipp
Author: Marinos Sariyannis
Author: Michael Winter
Author: Erwin I. J. Rosenthal
Author: Ovamir Anjum
Author: Michael Winter
Author: Gerhard Bowering