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Mirror for the Muslim Prince Islam and the Theory of Statecraft
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- Creator
- edited by Mehrzad Boroujerdi
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (490 p.)
- ISBNs
- 081565085X, 9780815650850, 9780815632894, 0815632894
- OCLC
- ocn867740917, ocn813949502
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-448) and index.
- English
- Introduction / Mehrzad Boroujerdi -- Maslahah as a political concept / Asma Afsaruddin -- Saʻdi's Treatise on advice to the kings / Alireza Shomali and Mehrzad Boroujerdi -- Perso-Islamicate political ethic in relation to the sources of Islamic law / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- An anomaly in the history of Persian political thought / Javad Tabatabai -- Teaching wisdom : a Persian work of advice for Atabeg Ahmad of Luristan / Louise Marlow -- A Muslim state in a non-Muslim context : the Mughal case / Muzaffar Alam -- Al-Tahtawi's trip to Paris in light of recent historical analysis : travel literature or a mirror for princes? / Peter Gran -- Law and the common good : to bring about a virtuous city or preserve the old order? / Charles E. Butterworth -- What do Egypt's Islamists want? : moderate Islam and the rise of Islamic constitutionalism in Mubarak's Egypt / Bruce K. Rutherford -- The body corporate and the social body / Șerif Mardin -- Cosmopolitanism past and present, Muslim and western / Roxanne L. Euben -- God's caravan : topoi and schemata in the history of Muslim political thought / Aziz Al-Azmeh