The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the PresentThe History of Islamic Political Thought offers a full description and an interpretation of political philosophy from early Islam to the current age of Fundamentalism (622 AD to 2000 AD). Antony Black takes the same approach as scholars usually do for the history of Western political thought, examining the mentality, cultural milieu, and political background of thinkers and statesmen. He covers the relationship of politics to religion, law, ethics, philosophy, and statecraft, as expressed through treatises, occasional writings, official rhetoric, popular slogans, and other evidence of how people thought about authority and order. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
The Mission of Muhammad | 9 |
The Idea of Monarchy under the Umayyads and Abbasids | 18 |
The Method of Tradition sunna | 32 |
Shiite Theories of Leadership imama | 39 |
The Restoration of Persia c 8501050 | 49 |
Plato without the Polis | 57 |
Sunni Doctrine | 79 |
Social Philosophy and Status Groups | 145 |
Sharia Governance alsiyasa | 154 |
Statecraft and Morality | 160 |
The Decline of Classical Islamic Political Thought | 183 |
International Relations | 193 |
The State of the House of Osman devleti ali Osman | 197 |
The Safavids | 221 |
India and the Mughals | 239 |
The Order of the Realm | 91 |
AlGhazalis Balance | 97 |
AdvicetoKings nasihat almuluk | 108 |
Philosophy Goes West | 115 |
The Politics of Sufism | 128 |
The Rape of Asia | 137 |
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