Medieval Islamic Political Thought

Patricia Crone

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Patricia Crone, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: August 2013
Print publication year:: 2004
Online ISBN:: 9780748646500

Subjects:: Islam, Religion, Philosophy, Political Philosophy

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This book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Based on a wide variety of sources, it seeks to bring out the enormous scope and high level of historical (and, in some cases, contemporary) interest of medieval Muslim thinking on this subject. The author aims to make Islamic political thought easier for modern readers to understand by relating it to the contexts in which it was formulated, analysing it in terms familiar to the reader, and, where possible, comparing it with medieval European and modern thought. Guiding the reader through this complex history on a tour of one of the great civilizations of the pre-modern world, the book brings out the fascinating nature of medieval Islamic political thought, both in its own right and as the background to political thinking in the Muslim world today. Key Features* Written by one of the most renowned scholars in the field* All concepts have been glossed and all persons, events and historical developments have been identified or summarised, both on first encounter and in the index (where the number of the page containing the gloss will be emboldened)* Specialists are addressed in the footnotes; non-specialists are free to skip these and read an uncluttered text

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of charts
pp vii-vii

Preface
pp viii-x

Addenda and corrigenda
pp xi-xii

I - THE BEGINNINGS
pp 1-2

1 - THE ORIGINS OF GOVERNMENT
pp 3-16

2 - THE FIRST CIVIL WAR AND SECT FORMATION
pp 17-32

3 - THE UMAYYADS
pp 33-48

II - THE WANING OF THE TRIBAL TRADITION, c. 700–900
pp 49-50

4 - INTRODUCTION
pp 51-53

5 - THE KHĀRIJITES
pp 54-64

6 - THE MUTAZILITES
pp 65-69

7 - THE SHĪITES OF THE UMAYYAD PERIOD
pp 70-86

8 - THE ABBĀSIDS AND SHĪISM
pp 87-98

9 - THE ZAYDĪS
pp 99-109

10 - THE IMAMIS
pp 110-124

11 - THE ḤADĪTH PARTY
pp 125-142

III - COPING WITH A FRAGMENTED WORLD
pp 143-144

12 - INTRODUCTION
pp 145-147

13 - THE PERSIAN TRADITION AND ADVICE LITERATURE
pp 148-164

14 - THE GREEK TRADITION AND ‘POLITICAL SCIENCE’
pp 165-196

15 - THE ISMAILIS
pp 197-218

16 - THE SUNNIS
pp 219-256

IV - GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
pp 257-258

17 - THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT
pp 259-285

18 - THE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT
pp 286-314

19 - VISIONS OF FREEDOM
pp 315-331

20 - THE SOCIAL ORDER
pp 332-357

21 - MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS
pp 358-392

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