Political thought in the Mamluk period : the unnecessary caliphate / Mohamad El-Merheb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El Merheb, Mohamad, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mamelukes.

Egypt--Politics and government--640-1882.

Egypt.

Egypt--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This resource covers the political thought produced by legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period as they tackled a central question: how best to govern their communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Reading Islamic Political Thought

2 Ibn Jamaʿa’s Synthesis and Praxis of Shafiʿi Political Thought

3 Sufi Political Thought

4 The Late Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Context: Ibn Talha and al-Qarafi

5 Mamluk Historiography as a Form of Political Thought

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 20, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: El-Merheb, Mohamad Political Thought in the Mamluk Period

ISBN:

1-4744-7967-7

1-3995-1335-4

1-4744-7966-9

OCLC:

1303890285