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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Asma Afsaruddin |
ISBN: | 9780230116559 0230116558 9781349297207 1349297208 |
OCLC Number: | 727047920 |
Description: | vi, 255 pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / Asma Afsaruddin -- Medieval Section. Justification of Political Authority in Medieval Sunni Thought / Hayrettin Yucesoy ; Alfarabi and the Foundation of Political Theology in Islam / Massimo Campanini ; Alfarabi's Goal: Political Philosophy, Not Political Theology / Charles Butterworth ; Prophecy, Imamate, and Political Rule among the Ikhwan al-Safa / Carmela Baffioni ; Responsibilities of Political Office in a Shi'i Caliphate and the Delineation of Public Duties under the Fatimids / Paul Walker ; Ibn Taymiyya on Islamic Governance / Banan Malkawi and Tamara Sonn. -- Modern Section. Theologizing about Democracy: A Critical Appraisal of Mawdudi's Thought / Asma Afsaruddin ; The Political Philosophy of Islamic Resurgence / Muqtedar Khan ; Rethinking the Relationship between Religion and Liberal Democracy: Overcoming the Problems of Secularism in Muslim Societies / Nader Hashemi ; Minarchist Political Islam / Anas Malik ; Wilayat al-Faqih and Democracy/ Mohsen Kadivar ; Anwar al-'Awlaqi against the Islamic Legal Tradition / Andrew March. |
Series Title: | Middle East today. |
Responsibility: | edited by Asma Afsaruddin. |
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Abstract:
The expert essays in this volume deal with critically important topics concerning Islam and politics in both the pre-modern and modern periods, such as the nature of government, the relationship between politics and theology, Shi'i conceptions of statecraft, notions of public duty, and the compatibility of Islam and democratic governance.
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'This edited volume is a model collection. Its title identifies clearly its subject matter, political authority in the Islamic world. The chapters focus in varied and useful ways on that obviously pressing subject matter.' - Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies Read more...
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