Islam and the Theory of Statecraft /
Edited by Mehrzad Boroujerdi /
In this volume, a group of distinguished scholars reinterpret concepts and canons of Islamic thought in Arab, Persian, South Asian, and Turkish traditions....The nuanced reading of the Islamic traditions provided in this book will help future generations of Muslims contemplate a more humane style of statecraft. Read the full article...
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1. Introduction
Mehrzad Boroujerdi
2. Maslahah as a Political Concept
Asma Afsaruddin
3. Sa’di’s Treastise on Advise to the Kings
Alireza Shomali and Mehrzad Boroujerdi
4. Perso-Islamicate Political Ethic in Relation to the Sources of Islamic Law
Saïd Amir Arjomand
5. An Anomaly in the History of Persian Political Thought
Javad Tabatabi
6. Teaching Vision: A Persian Work of Advising for Atbeg Ahmad of Luristan
Louise Marlow
7. A Muslim State in Non-Muslim Context: The Mughal Case
Muzaffar Alam
8. Al-Tahtawi’s Trip to Paris in Light of Recent Historical Analysis: Travel Literature or a Mirror for Princes?
Peter Gran
. 9Law and the Common Good: To Bring about a Virtuous City or Preserve the Old Order
Charles E. Butterworth
10.What Do Egypt’s Islamists Want?: Moderate Islam and the Rise of Islamic Constitutionalism in Mubarak’s Egypt
Bruce K. Rutherford
. 11. The Body Corporate and the Social Body
Şerif Mardin
12. Cosmopolitanism Past and Present, Muslim and Western
Roxanne L. Euben
. 13. God’s Caravan: Topoi and Schemata in the History of Muslim Political Thought
Aziz Al-Azmeh