LEADER 04156oam 22006492 450 001 9910788215503321 005 20231017225441.0 010 $a0-7486-9650-4 010 $a0-7486-4650-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748646500 035 $a(CKB)3170000000064800 035 $a(EBL)4462129 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000986283 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11611734 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000986283 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10933841 035 $a(PQKB)10829328 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780748646500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4462129 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00071398 035 $a(DE-B1597)616617 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748646500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6994809 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6994809 035 $a(OCoLC)1302166653 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000064800 100 $a20130327d2004|||| uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedieval Islamic political thought /$fPatricia Crone 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 462 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aThe New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys 311 0 $a0-7486-2194-6 311 0 $a0-7486-1870-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover ; Title page; Copyright page; Contents list; Charts list; Preface; Addenda and Corrigenda; PART I; Ch 1: Origins of Government; Ch 2: The First Civil War; Ch 3: The Umayyads; PART II; Ch 4: Introduction; Ch 5: The Kharijites; Ch 6: The Mu'tazilites; Ch 7: The Shi'ites; Ch 8: The 'Abbasids and Shi'ism; Ch 9: The Zaydis; Ch 10: The Imamis; Ch 11: The Hadith Party; PART III; Ch 12: Introduction; Ch 13: The Persian Tradition; Ch 14: The Greek Tradition; Ch 15: The Ismailis; Ch 16: The Sunnis; PART IV; Ch 17: the Nature of Government; Ch 18: The Functions of Government; Ch 19: Visions of Freedom; Ch 20: The Social Order; Ch 21: Muslims and Non-Muslims; Ch 22: Epilogue; Charts; Bibliography, Abbreviations and Conventions; Index and Glossary 330 $aThis book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Based on a wide variety of sources, it seeks to bring out the enormous scope and high level of historical (and, in some cases, contemporary) interest of medieval Muslim thinking on this subject. The author aims to make Islamic political thought easier for modern readers to understand by relating it to the contexts in which it was formulated, analysing it in terms familiar to the reader, and, where possible, comparing it with medieval European and modern thought. Guiding the reader through this complex history on a tour of one of the great civilizations of the pre-modern world, the book brings out the fascinating nature of medieval Islamic political thought, both in its own right and as the background to political thinking in the Muslim world today. Key Features * Written by one of the most renowned scholars in the field * All concepts have been glossed and all persons, events and historical developments have been identified or summarised, both on first encounter and in the index (where the number of the page containing the gloss will be emboldened) * Specialists are addressed in the footnotes; non-specialists are free to skip these and read an uncluttered text 410 0$aNew Edinburgh Islamic surveys. 606 $aIslam and politics$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aPolitical culture$zIslamic countries$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aPolitical science$zIslamic countries$xHistory$yTo 1500 615 0$aIslam and politics$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical science$xHistory 676 $a320.5570902 686 $aMC 9110$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aCrone$b Patricia$f1945-2015,$0133399 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788215503321 996 $aMedieval islamic political thought$91233921 997 $aUNINA