Islamic Political Thought and Governance, (4 Volume Set)

Islam has had a significant impact on world history, not only as a major religion that has directed the personal beliefs and actions of individuals, but also as the basis of a distinct system of government that has developed its own institutions, practices and philosophies.

This new Routledge Major Work collection is concerned with the development of political thought in Islam. By political thought is meant, broadly, the study and interpretation of Islamic political culture, ideas, beliefs, and institutions; the contribution of key political theorists and authorities to the understanding or practice of governance; what people and groups believed about political authority and institutions and their political convictions; and how politics in the Islamic world has related to and interacted with other disciplines, such as religion, law, ethics, and philosophy.

Although contemporary issues in Islamic political thought are very much in the public focus at the moment, this set also focuses on the history and development of Islamic political theories and thought, from their inception until the twentieth century. Political thought in the Muslim world is connected to its history and by understanding the past, those who study contemporary political thought will have a better grounding to understand current and future developments.

Moreover, understanding how Islamic political thought developed also helps shed light on the political thought of other civilizations, such as Western political thought. Political thought in Islam did not develop in isolation - it responded to and interacted with the political institutions and theories of other civilizations throughout history.

Volume I : Roots of Islamic Political Thought, Key trends, Basic Doctrines, and Development

Part 1 : Pre-Islamic Tribal Tradition
Chapter 1 : The Social Organization of Mecca and The Origins of Islam’, South Western Journal of Anthropology
Chapter 2 : The Rise of Mecca : Geopolitical Factors’, Muslim World

Part 2 : and The Birth of a New Political Society
Chapter 3 : Reflections on The "Constitution of Medina" : An Essay on Methodology and Ideology in Islamic Legal History’, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law
Chapter 4 : Ummah in The Constitution of Medina’, Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Part 3 : The Caliphal Status of The Rightly Guided Caliphs
Chapter 5 : Umar bal-Khattab and The Title Khalifat Allah : A Textual Analysis’, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Part 4 : Early Schisms and The Formation of The Sects
Chapter 6 : The Siffin Arbitration Agreement’, Journal of Semitic Studies

Part 5 : The Khariji and Mu’tazili Opposition and Their Idea of The Caliphate
Chapter 7 : The Emergence of The Khawarij : Religion and The Social Order in Early Islam’, Jusur
Chapter 8 : Jabr and Qadar in Early Islam : A Reappraisal of Their Political and Religious Implications, Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J : Adams

Part 6 : The Shi’a Opposition
Chapter 9 : How Did The Early Shia Become Sectarian?’, Journal of The American Oriental Society

Part 7 : Sunni Doctrines and The State
Chapter 10 : Al-Mawardi’s Theory of State : Some Ignored Dimensions’, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
Chapter 11 : A New Look at al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya’, The Muslim World
Chapter 12 : Separation of State and Religion in Early Islamic Society’, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Part 8 : Some Key Sunni Theologian Scholars
Chapter 13 : Al-Ghazali’s Theory of Islamic Government’, The Muslim World
Chapter 14 : Caliphs, Jurists and The Saljuqs in The Political Thought of Juwayni’, The Muslim World

Part 9 : Shi’i Notions of The Caliphate/Imamate
Chapter 15 : The Development of The Shia Concept of The Imamate’, Asian Studies
Chapter 16 : From Imamiyya to Ithna-Ashariyya’, Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies

Part 10 : The Umayyad Caliphate
Chapter 17 : The Evolution of Government in Early Islam’, Studia Islamica

Part 11 : The Umayyads in The West
Chapter 18 : The Command of The Faithful in al-Andalus : A Study in The Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy’, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Part 12 : The Idea of Caliphate Under The Abbasids
Chapter 19 : The Formation of The Islamic State’, Journal of The American Oriental Society
Chapter 20 : The Caliphs, The Ulama, and The Law : Defining The Role and Function of The Caliph in The Early Abbasid Period’, Islamic Law and Society

Volume II : Later Theories and Styles of leadership in The Sunni and Shiite World

Part 13 : Theories and Styles of Leadership Among The Sunnis

Part 14 : The Religio-Political Legacy of The Seljuks; Nizam’s Political Theory
Chapter 21 : The Dilemma of Government in Islamic Persia : The Siyasat-nama of Nizam al-Mulk’, Iran

Part 15 : Mamluk Ideology : The Sultan-Caliph Status
Chapter 22 : The Position and Power of The Mamluk Sultan’, Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies
Chapter 23 : ‘Siyasah Shariyah or The Policies of Islamic Government’, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences

Part 16 : The Ottoman State
Chapter 24 : Suleiman The Lawgiver and Ottoman Law’, Archivum Ottomanicum

Part 17 : The Mughals of India
Chapter 25 : The Mughal State : Structure or Process? Reflections on Recent Western Historiography’, Indian Economic and Social History Review

Part 18 : Later Theories and Styles of Leadership Among The Shiites

Part 19 : Later Imamis, Zaydis and Fatimids Political Theories of Leadership (The Samanids, The Ghaznavids, The Buyids)
Chapter 26 : The Fatimid Theory of State
Chapter 27 : The Ibadi "Imama"’, Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies

Part 20 : The Zaydis
Chapter 28 : Al-Kasim ibn Ibrahim’s Theory of The Imamate’, Arabica

Part 21 : War and Foreign Relations
Chapter 29 : Muslim Apocalyptic and Jihad’, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
Chapter 30 : The Development of The Imami Shi’i Doctrine of Jihad’, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
Chapter 31 : Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam : Traditions and Interpretations, Religion Between Violence and Reconciliation

Part 22 : Non-Muslim Minorities
Chapter 32 : Ahl Al-dhimma in an Islamic State : The Teaching of Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi’s Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Chapter 33 : The Ottoman Approach to Christians and Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Chapter 34 : Dhimmis in The Muslim Court : Legal Autonomy and Religious Discrimination’, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Volume III : Muslim Society

Part 23 : The Notion of Umma
Chapter 35 : Kingship in Islam : Islamic Universalism Through The Caliphate, Patterns of Kingship and Authority in Traditional Asia

Part 24 : The Military and Military Politics
Chapter 36 : The Growth of Military Institutions in The Early Caliphate and Their Relation to Civilian Authority’, Al-Qantara : Revista de Estudios Arabes
Chapter 37 : Military Politics in The Muslim Dynastic States, 1400–1750’, Journal of The American Oriental Society

Part 25 : Kinship
Chapter 38 : Genealogy in Medieval Muslim societies’, Studia Islamica

Part 26 : Slaves
Chapter 39 : Slaves and Slave Trading in Shi’i Iran, AD 1500–1900’, Journal of Asian and African Studies
Chapter 40 : Late Ottoman Concepts of Slavery (1830s–1880s)’, Poetics Today

Part 27 : Sufism and Sufi Orders
Chapter 41 : Sufis and The State in Medieval Persia, State and Islam
Chapter 42 : Revolutionary Mahdism and Resistance to Colonial Rule in The Sokoto Caliphate, 1905–6’, Journal of African History

Part 28 : Elements of Civil Society

Part 29 : The Waqf
Chapter 43 : Islamic Institutions and Property Rights : The Case of The "Public Good" Waqf’, Journal of The Economic & Social History of The Orient

Part 30 : The Mosque
Chapter 44 : The Social and Political Functions of The Mosque in The Muslim Community’, Islamic Culture
Chapter 45 : Bazaar-Mosque Alliance : The Social Basis of Revolts and Revolutions’, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society

Part 31 : Law and Administration of Justice

Part 32 : Justice and Egalitarianism
Chapter 46 : Enacting Justice, Ensuring Salvation : The Trope of The "Just Ruler" in Some Medieval Islamic Mirrors for Princes’, The Muslim World

Part 33 : The Sunni Ulema
Chapter 47 : The Development and Role of The Seyhulislam in Early Ottoman History’, Journal of The American Oriental Society
Chapter 48 : The Role of The Ulama in The Politics of an Islamic State : The Case of Saudi Arabia’, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Part 34 : The Shi’i Ulema
Chapter 49 : The Institutionalization of Marja’-i Taqlid in The Nineteenth-Century Shi’ite Community’, The Muslim World

Part 35 : The Qadis
Chapter 50 : The Judiciary (Qadòis) as a Governmental-Administrative Tool in Early Islam’, Journal of The Economic and Social History of The Orient

Part 36 : Ifta’ and Muftis
Chapter 51 : Transcendence and Social Practice : Muftis and Qadòis as Religious Interpreters’, Annales Islamologiques

Part 37 : Mazalim/Secular Criminal Courts
Chapter 52 : Mazalim and dar al-Adl Under The Early Mamluks’, The Muslim World

Part 38 : Muhtasib/Hisba
Chapter 53 : The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in The Medieval Islamic City’, Digest of Middle East Studies

Volume IV : The Modern Era

Part 39 : The Fragmentation of The Ottoman Empire
Chapter 54 : Ottoman Historiography and The Literature of "Decline" of The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, Journal of Asian History

Part 40 : Westernization
Chapter 55 : The Impact of The French Revolution on Muslim Societies : Evidence and Ambiguities’, International Social Science Journal
Chapter 56 : Secularization and Modernization in Turkey : The Ideas of Ziya Gokalp’, Economy and Society
Chapter 57 : The Desacralisation of Power in Islam’, Religion, State & Society

Part 41 : Conservatism and Pan-Islamism
Chapter 58 : Seyyid Bey and The Abolition of The Caliphate’, Middle Eastern Studies

Part 42 : Pan-Islamism
Chapter 59 : The "Meanings" of Pan-Islamism : The Growth of International Consciousness Among The Muslims of India and Indonesia in The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century’, Itinerario

Part 43 : Democratization of Authority
Chapter 60 : Rashid Rida’s Struggle to Establish a Modern Islamic State’, American Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 61 : "Taking Back" The Caliphate : Sharif Husayn ibn ‘Ali, Mustafa Kemal and The Ottoman Caliphate’, Die Welt Des Islams

Part 44 : Islam and Socialism/Marxism
Chapter 62 : In Search of "Revolutionary Islam" : The Case of Taleqani and The Mojahedin’, The Muslim World
Chapter 63 : Bandali al-Jawzi’s Min Tarikh al-Harakat al-Fikriyyat fi’l-Islam : The First Marxist Interpretation of Islam’, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Part 45 : Islam and Nationalism
Chapter 64 : Islam and The Theory of Arab Nationalism’, Die Welt des Islams
Chapter 65 : The Young Turk Revolution’, Journal of Contemporary History

Part 46 : Fundamentalism and Radicalism
Chapter 66 : Sayyid Qutb’s View of Islam, Society and Militancy’, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Chapter 67 : People vs : God : The Logic of "Divine Sovereignty" in Islamic Democratic Discourse’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Chapter 68 : What is Islamism? History and Definition of a Concept’, Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions
Chapter 69 : The Future of Muslim Politics : Critique of The "Fundamentalist" Theory of The Islamic State’, Futures

Part 47 : The Shiite World : The Iranian Revolution and Walayat al-Faqih
Chapter 70 : Islam, Politics and Society in The Thought of Ayatullah Khomeini, Ayatullah Taliqani and Ali Shariati’, Middle Eastern Studies

Part 48 : Challenges and Prospects
Chapter 71 : Juristic Authority vs : State Power : The Legal Crises of Modern Islam’, Journal of Law & Religion
Chapter 72 : Islamic Law/Shari’a, Human Rights, Universal Morality and International Relations’, Human Rights Quarterly
Chapter 73 : Constitutionalism, Judiciary, and Democracy in Islamic Societies’, Polity

Part 49 : Women
Chapter 74 : The Centrality and Marginalization of Women in The Political Discourse of Arab Nationalists and Islamists’, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies
Chapter 75 : Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality : Between Islamic Law and Feminism’, Critical Inquiry

Part 50 : Totalitarianism
Chapter 76 : The Totalitarianism of Jihadist Islamism and its Challenge to Europe and to Islam’, Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions