State and Government in Medieval Islam

Ann K. S. Lambton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136605208
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

First published in 2004. For the Muslim the foundation from which all discussion of government starts is the law of God, the shar?'a. Theoretically pre-existing and eternal, it represents absolute good. It is prior to the community and the state.' Part of London Oriental Series, this volume's concern wis with the political ideas of the period extending from the 2nd/8th century to the 11th/17th century and to the central lands of the caliphate, including Persia, and North Africa.

INDEX

‘Abbād b. Salmān (Sulaymān), 39

‘Abbās II (Safawid), 278, 282

al-‘Abbās b. ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib, 47

‘Abbasids, 45, 47–8, 62, 112, 173, 223; of Egypt, 199

‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Ibāḍ, 25

‘Abd Allāh b. Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ), 228, 296

‘Abd Allāh b. Yaḥyā, 27

‘Abd al-Malik, 46

‘Abd Manāf, 46

‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. ‘Awf, 38, 41

Abel, Professor A., xviii

Abū ‘A1ī b. Sīnā see Ibn Sīnā

Abū Bakr, 14, 17, 18, 28, 29, 41, 61, 82, 221–2

Abū Bilāl Mirdās b. Udayya al-Tamīmī, 25

Abū Ḥanīfa, 4, 9, 33, 217

Abū Hāshim, 47

Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad b. Ya‘qūb al-Kulaynī see al-Kulaynī

Abū Sahl Ismā‘īl, 228

Abū ‘Ubayda Muslim b. Abī Karīma al-Tamīmī, 25, 26, 27

Abū Ya‘lā b. al-Farrā’, 103

Abū Yūsuf, 49, 55–8, 68, 140, 180

Abū’l-Khaṭṭāb, 26

adab 67

al-Adab al-kabīr, 54

al-Adab al-ṣaghīr, 54

‘adāla, 74, 89

‘adl, 24, 89, 122n, 221; see also justice

al-afḍal 17, 29, 74, 134

al-Aḥkām al-sulṭāniyya, 83–4, 88, 139, 180

ahl al-‘adl, 94

ahl al-bayt, 28, 30, 31, 48, 224

ahl al-ḥall wa'l-‘aqd, 18, 73, 89, 105, 111, 114, 139, 141, 184, 311

Aḥmad al-Ardabīlī, Shaykh, 271

Aḥmad Ghulām Khalīl, 7

Aḥmad Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī, 299

Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, 4, 9, 41–2, 50, 69, 146

Akhbārī school, the, 267n.

‘Alam al-Hudā Sayyid Murtaḍā, 225, 228, 238, 250

al-Alfayn, 234–5

‘Alī al-Riḍā, 39

‘A1ī b. Abī Ṭālib, 22, 24, 28, 37, 38, 41, 42, 60, 66, 145, 227; as intercessor, 2...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• London Oriental Series
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• I. RELIGION AND POLITICS: THE LAW
• II. THE COMMUNITY AND THE STATE
• III. KHĀRIJĪS AND ZAYDĪS: MURJI‘ĪS, QADARĪS AND MU‘TAZILA
• IV. THE USE AND ABUSE OF SOVEREIGNTY: ABŪ YŪSUF, IBN AL-MUQAFFA‘, AL-JĀḤIẒ AND IBN AL-QUTAYBA
• V. AL-BĀQILLĀNĪ AND AL-BAGHDĀDĪ
• VI. AL-MĀWARDĪ: WIZĀRA AND IMĀRA
• VII. AL-JUWAYNĪ AND AL-GHAZĀLĪ: THE SULTANATE
• VIII. FAKHR AL-DĪN RĀZĪ: THE DISSOCIATION OF RELIGIOUS AND TEMPORAL POWER
• IX. THE EXTINCTION OF THE CALIPHATE: IBN JAMĀ‘A AND IBN TAYMIYYA
• X. THE HISTORICAL THEORY: IBN KHALDŪN
• XI. THE IMĀM/SULTAN: FAḌL ALLĀH B. RŪZBIHĀN KHUNJĪ
• XII. THE RELATIONS OF MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS: JIHĀD: TAXATION AND THE CONQUERED LANDS
• XIII. THE SHĪ‘A: THE IMĀMIYYA
• XIV. THE FUQAHĀ’AND THE HOLDERS OF POWER
• XV. THE SAFAWID DILEMMA
• XVI. THE ISMĀ‘ĪLIYYA
• XVII. THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE STATE
• APPENDIX AL-FĀRĀBĪ: THE GOOD CITY
• NOTE ON TERMS
• GLOSSARY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX