Political Thought in Islam: A Study in Intellectual Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9780415613187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 196 str.

Nelly Lahoud;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This book provides a study of political thought in Islam from the viewpoint of the history of ideas and the relevance of these ideas to contemporary Arabic political discourse.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction  1. The Islamists and the Apologist  2. The Intellectuals  3. Is Islamic Politics Islamic or Islamist?  4. Allegory and Orthodoxies  5. Farabi: On Religion and Philosophy  6. On Ibn Rushd's Liberalism  7. Conclusion

O autorze

Nelly Lahoud completed her PhD in 2002 at the Australian National University. In 2003 she was a post-doctoral researcher at St John's College, University of Cambridge and now teaches political theory at Goucher College, USA. She has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in Islamic Studies at the Library of Congress and is the co-editor of Islam in World Politics (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).