Islam and the state in Ibn Taymiyya : translation and analysis /

"This volume offers a unique approach to the study of Ibn Taymiyyah, by offering an English translation of his fundamental political work, The Office of Islamic Government, and shorter collections from The Collected Fatwas and The Prophetic Way Against the Theology of the Shiites and Qadarites....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Islam, Jaan (Author), Eryiğit, Adem (Author)
Other Authors: Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Published: Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, 2022
Series:Culture and civilisation in the Middle East
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction: 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Works: Their Author, Significance
  • Part II: The Translation: The Translation (Part One): The Office of Islamic Government
  • 4. The Translation (Part Two): Ordering Good and Prohibiting Evil
  • 5. The Translation (Part Three): The Compiled Fatwas, The Prophetic Way Against the Shiʻites, and 'Islamic Governance' on the Importance of Islamic Government
  • Part III: Analysis: 6. Analysis and Comparison of Ibn Taymiyya's Political Thought and Feasibility of the Islamic State
  • 7. The Caliphate and the Nation-State: Navigating Ibn Taymiyya in a (post-)Modern World
  • Glossary of Frequent Terms
  • References: Primary Sources ; Secondary Sources
  • Index