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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index