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Author El Merheb, Mohamad, author

Title Political thought in the Mamluk period the unnecessary caliphate
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)
Series Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
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
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
Subject Mamelukes.
Political science -- Egypt -- Philosophy
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Intellectual life
Mamelukes
Political science -- Philosophy
Politics and government
SUBJECT Egypt -- Politics and government -- 640-1882. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041321
Egypt -- Intellectual life
Subject Egypt
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474479660
1474479669