Ali Humayun Akhtar (Maine Bates College)

Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs

Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history. By tracing how political debates about leadership impacted the theological scholars and their own conception of communal guidance, it offers a new picture of premodern political authority and the connections between Western and Islamic civilizations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781107182011
• ISBN-10: 1107182018
• Artikelnr.: 47721028

Autorenporträt

Ali Humayun Akhtar is an Assistant Professor at Bates College, Maine. He is also the Robert M. Kingdon Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Akhtar holds a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.