Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs

ISBN-13: 9781316633090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 278 str.

Ali Humayun Akhtar

Opis

This book investigates the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history from Morocco to Egypt and Iraq.

Recenzje

'… a novel and stimulating work that should be consulted by anyone with an interest in Andalusian intellectual history.' Peter Adamson, Journal of Arabic Literature

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: politics, law, and authority in the Abbasid and Fatimid; Part I. Philosophical Caliphs and their Impact on the Scholars: 1. Rival caliphs in Baghdad and Cairo; 2. A third caliphate in Cordoba; 3. Political reform among the later Abbasids; Part II. Philosophical Sufis among Scholars and their Impact on Political Culture: 4. Sufi metaphysics in the twelfth century; 5. A new political model and its Sufi; 6. The transformation of caliphal politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.