The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought

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Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, Mahan Mirza
Princeton University Press, 2013 - Philosophy - 656 pages

An indispensable guide to Islamic political thought from Muhammad to the twenty-first century

The first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond. With more than 400 alphabetically arranged entries written by an international team of specialists, the volume focuses on the origins and evolution of Islamic political ideas and related subjects, covering central terms, concepts, personalities, movements, places, and schools of thought across Islamic history. Fifteen major entries provide a synthetic treatment of key topics, such as Muhammad, jihad, authority, gender, culture, minorities, fundamentalism, and pluralism. Incorporating the latest scholarship, this is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, journalists, and anyone else seeking an informed perspective on the complex intersection of Islam and politics.

  • Includes more than 400 concise, alphabetically arranged entries
  • Features 15 in-depth entries on key topics
  • Covers topics such as:

  • Central themes and sources of Islamic political thought: caliph, modernity, knowledge, shari'a, government, revival and reform
  • Modern concepts, institutions, movements, and parties: civil society, Islamization, secularism, veil, Muslim Brotherhood
  • Islamic law and traditional Islamic societies: justice, taxation, fatwa, dissent, governance, piety and asceticism, trade and commerce
  • Sects, schools, regions, and dynasties: Mu'tazilis, Shi'ism, Quraysh, Mecca and Medina, Baghdad, Indonesia, Nigeria, Central Asia, Ottomans
  • Thinkers, personalities, and statesmen: Mawardi, Shafi'I, Saladin, Tamerlane, Akbar, Atatürk, Nasser, Khomeini

    • Contains seven historical and contemporary maps of Muslim empires, postcolonial nation-states, populations, and settlements
    • Guides readers to further research through bibliographies, cross-references, and an index
     

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    Gerhard Bowering,Patricia Crone,Wadad Kadi,Devin J. Stewart,Muhammad Qasim Zaman,Mahan Mirza
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    About the author (2013)

    Patricia Crone was born on March 28, 1945 in Kyndelose, Denmark. She received undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She taught at Oxford University and Cambridge University before joining the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center, where she was a professor from 1997 until retiring in 2014. She explored archaeological records and contemporary Greek and Aramaic sources to challenge views on the roots and evolution of Islam. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World written with Michael Cook, God's Rule: Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought, and The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran. She died from cancer on July 11, 2015 at the age of 70.

    Bibliographic information

    TitleThe Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
    EditorsGerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, Mahan Mirza
    Editionillustrated
    PublisherPrinceton University Press, 2013
    ISBN0691134847, 9780691134840
    Length656 pages
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    Philosophy / Political
    Political Science / History & Theory
    Political Science / Reference
    Reference / Encyclopedias
    Reference / General
    Religion / Islam / General
    Religion / Reference
    Religion / Religion, Politics & State
    Social Science / Islamic Studies
      
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