RT Book
T1 Political thought in medieval Islam: an introductory outline
A1 Rosenthal, Erwin Isak Jakob 1904-1991
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1958
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883456265
AB Muhammad founded a World-State as well as a faith; as Islam spread from its first centres, Muslim political thinkers had to apply the divinely revealed law of the Prophet to new circumstances. They had to relate new realities of power and authority to the ideal constitution which he had laid down and which his immediate successors had elaborated. Against this background Dr Rosenthal discusses the later Muslim philosophers who were influenced by the political thought of Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Greek thought modified the Islamic and yet was always subordinated to Muslim categories of thought and political needs. Dr Rosenthal thus surveys the chief traditions of Islamic political thought from the eighth to the end of the fifteenth centuries. He emphasises the basic unity given by the shared faith of the writers, without diminishing the individuality of each. Orientalists will welcome the book; so will historians of the medieval West, for it shows them the religious, political and intellectual positions underlying the expansion of Islam.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN JA82
SN 9780511735332
K1 Political Science : History.
K1 Islamic sociology
K1 Political Science : History
K1 Political science ; History
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511735332