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

Black, Antony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748614729 ISBN 13: 9780748614721

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2001

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An impressive synthesis that will open up this field to non-Islamicists ! the only book of its kind, done by a political theorist who brings that discipline's approach and comparative background to bear on the subject -- Jury of the BKFS Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies This is a remarkably good book. The author covers a long period, from the jahaliyya up to today, and the coverage is uniformly clear and judicious ... Black is to be congratulated for having provided such an extended discussion of high quality ... his comparative touch is light and inevitably illuminating ... a lot of books have appeared in recent years on Islamic political thought, and this is undoubtedly one of the best. It will play an important role in the teaching of the subject for many years to come An impressive synthesis that will open up this field to non-Islamicists ! the only book of its kind, done by a political theorist who brings that discipline's approach and comparative background to bear on the subject This is a remarkably good book. The author covers a long period, from the jahaliyya up to today, and the coverage is uniformly clear and judicious ... Black is to be congratulated for having provided such an extended discussion of high quality ... his comparative touch is light and inevitably illuminating ... a lot of books have appeared in recent years on Islamic political thought, and this is undoubtedly one of the best. It will play an important role in the teaching of the subject for many years to come

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Islam is enormously important today in both international and national domestic politics, but contemporary political Islam cannot be understood without an awareness of it roots. Yet, little attention has been paid to the way its political ideas originated how they developed. 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. This unique and ambitious book will appeal to students of Islamic studies and political theory, as well as readers interested in Islamic politics more generally

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• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0748614729
• ISBN 13: 9780748614721
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400