The history of Islamic political thought: from the Prophet to the present

Part 1 Early Islam: the messenger/the mission of Muhammad the notion of monarchy under the Umayyads and Abbasids c.661-900 the development of the Sunni way c.700-900 Shi'ism political culture in the Persian renaissance c.850-1050 the early Falasifa (philosophers) - Plato without the Polis. Part II Religion and state power (din wa dawla): Sunni doctrine and the state c.900-1220 the theory of the Caliphate the order of the realm Ghazali's balance the ethics of power - advice-to-kings (nahisat al-muluk) political philosophy in the 12th century Sufism and politics. Part III The Shari'a and the sword c.1220-1520: the rape of Asia Mamluk ideology and the Sultan-Caliph Nasir al-Din Tusi (1263-1328) - shara'a governance (al-siyasa al-shari'yya) the Delhi sultanate and al-Barani - statecraft and morality Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) - the science of civilization and the governance of Islam the decline of classical Islamic political thought. Part IV Islam and the west: the Age of Modernism - c.1830-1920 the Age of Fundamentalism c.1920-2000.