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THE HISTORY OF ISTAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT – From the Prophet to the Present by ANTONY BLACK

THE HISTORY OF ISTAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT

Book Contents

Introduction i

Part I The Messenger and the Law c.622-1000

1 The Mission of Muhammad 9

2 The Idea of Monarchy under the Umayyads and ‘Abbasids

c.661-850 18

3 The Formation of the Shari’a 32

4 Shi’ism 40

5 The Restoration of Persia c.850-1050 50

6 Knowledge and Power: Philosophy without the Polis 5 7

Part II Religion and State Power (din wa dawla): The Sunni Doctrine

of the State c.900-1220

7 The Theory of the Caliphate 81

8 State and Religion under the Saljuks 91

9 Al-Ghazali: Mysticism and Politics 97

10 The Ethics of Power: Advice-to-Kings (nasihat al-muluk) in

11 Ibn Rushd 118

12 Sufism and Politics 132

vi THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT

Part III The Shari’a and the Sword c. 1220-1500

13 The Rape of Asia 141

14 Mamlulc Ideology and the Sultan-Caliph 145

15 Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-74): Social Philosophy and Status Groups 149

16 Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328): Shari’a Governance (al-siyasa

al-shar’iyya) 158

17 The Delhi Sultanate and al-Barani: Statecraft and Morality 164

18 Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406): The Science of Civilisation and the

Governance of Islam 169

19 The Decline of Classical Islamic Political Thought 186

Part IV Religious Ideology and Political Control in Early Modern States

20 A New World Order 195

21 The State of the House of Osman (devlet-i al-i Osman) 199

22 The Safavids 223

23 India and the Mughals 240

24 The Decline and Reform of the Ottoman Empire 256

Part V Islam and the West

25 Modernism from the Ottoman Reforms to the Turkish Revolution 281

26 Conservatism and Modernism in Iran 300

27 Islamism 304

28 Islamism, Modernism and the Secular State 324

Conclusion 347