The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present

Front Cover
Psychology Press, 2001 - History - 377 pages
The 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
The Decline and Reform of the Ottoman Empire
255
The Age of Modernism c 18301920
279
The Age of Fundamentalism c 19202000
308
Conclusion
349
Index
366
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information