The history of Islamic political thought: from the Prophet to the present

Machine generated contents note: Part I The Messenger and the Law c.622-oo000

1 The Mission of Muhammad

2 The Idea of Monarchy under the Umayyads and 'Abbasids

c.66I-850

3 The Method of Tradition (sunna)

4 Shi'ite Theories of Leadership (imama)

5 The Restoration of Persia c.85o-Io5o

6 Knowledge and Power: Plato without the Polls Part II Religion and State Power (din wa dawla): Sunni Doctrine

and the State c.iooo-i22o

7 The Theory of the Caliphate

8 The Order of the Realm

9 Al-Ghazali's Balance

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

11 Philosophy Goes West

12 The Politics of Sufism

Part III The Shari'a and the Sword c.22o-I500o

13 The Rape of Asia

14 Mamluk Ideology and the Sultan-Caliph

15 Nasir al-Din Tusi (I20I-74): Social Philosophy and Status Groups

16 Ibn Taymiyya (I263-I328): Shari'a Governance (al-siyasa al-shar'iyya)

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

18 Ibn Khaldun (I332-I406): The Science of Civilisation and the

Governance of Islam

19 The Decline of Classical Islamic Political Thought Part IV The Early Modem Empires: Well-Protected Domains

20 International Relations

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

22 The Safavids

23 India and the Mughals

24 The Decline and Reform of the Ottoman Empire Part V Islam and the West

25 The Age of Modernism c.I83oI-920

26 The Age of Fundamentalism c.I 92o-2ooo

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

The messenger and the law c. 622-1000

Religion and state power (din wa dawla) : the Sunni doctrine of the state c. 900-1220

The shariʻa and the sword c. 1220-1500

Religious ideology and political control in early modern states

Isalm and the West.