State and Government in Medieval IslamFirst published in 2004. For the Muslim the foundation from which all discussion of government starts is the law of God, the sharī‘a. Theoretically pre-existing and eternal, it represents absolute good. It is prior to the community and the state.‘ Part of London Oriental Series, this volume’s concern wis with the political ideas of the period extending from the 2nd/8th century to the 11th/17th century and to the central lands of the caliphate, including Persia, and North Africa. |
Contents
| 1 | |
II The Community and the State | 13 |
Murjiīs Qadarīs and MuTazila
| 21 |
Abū Yūsuf ibn Almuqaffa Aljāhiz and Ibn Alqutayba
| 43 |
V AlBāqillānī and Albaghdādī
| 69 |
Wizāra and Imāra
| 83 |
The Sultanate
| 103 |
The Dissociation of Religious and Temporal Power
| 130 |
The Imāmiyya | 219 |
XIV The Fuqahā and the Holders of Power | 242 |
XV The Safawid Dilemma | 264 |
XVI The Ismāīliyya | 288 |
XVII The Individual and the State | 307 |
The good City | 316 |
Note on Terms | 326 |
Glossary | 327 |
Ibn Jamāa and Ibn Taymiyya
| 138 |
Ibn Khaldūn
| 152 |
Fadl Allāh b Rūzbihān Khunjī | 178 |
Jihād Taxation and the Conquered Lands | 201 |
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Abbasid accepted according affairs al-Bāqillānī al-Dīn al-Fārābī al-Ghazālī al-Jāhiz al-Māwardī al-Tūsī Alī Allāh amir appointed Arabic text asabiyya authority Baghdad bay‘a believed Buyids caliph century claim com command con concerned dār delegation dhimmī discussion divine doctrine duty enjoin exercise Fadl Allah Fatimid forbid evil functions fuqahā ghayba Gibb God’s hujja Ibādī Ibid Ibn al-Muqaffa Ibn Khaldūn Ibn Qutayba Ibn Taymiyya ijmā imām imamate Imāmī Imāmiyya incumbent Islamic Ismā‘īlī Jamā‘a jihād judgement jurists justice khalīfa kharāj Khārijīs khums king kingship Kitāb land Laoust later Mu‘āwiya Mu‘tazilī Muhammad mujtahids muqaddimah Muslim obedience obligatory office of qādī Persian text person philosophy political prayers prophet qiyās Qur’ān Quraysh rebels recognised regard religion religious rule ruler Safawid Shāfi‘ī shar‘ī sharī‘a Shī‘a Shī‘ī Shi‘ism successor sultan sunna Sunnī taqiyya temporal theory tradition ulamā Umar Umayyads umma unjust usurped valid vicegerent wazir zakāt Zaydī