The Grand Critic of Ibn Khaldūn

Ibn Al-Azraq and His Ideal Sultanate
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-52503-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: Islamicate Intellectual History

In The Grand Critic of Ibn Khaldun Elena Sahin critically analyses the major aspects of Ibn al-Azraq’s (d. 896/1491) political thought as presented in Bada'i' al-Silk fi Taba'i' al-Mulk (Unprecedented Lines about the Nature of Political Rule).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sahin, Elena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Current State of Research

2 The Two Modern Editions and Extant Manuscripts of Bada?i? al-Silk

3 Is Bada?i? al-Silk a Piece of Advice Literature?

4 The Labyrinth of Ibn Khaldun Research

5 The Cambridge School’s Precepts: A Major Source of Methodological Inspiration

6 Studying Non-Western Political Thought

7 Technical Clarifications

1 BS and the Muqaddima Reception Therein

1 Ibn al-Azraq in the Context of His Time

2 Ibn al-Azraq’s Bada?i? al-Silk—A Theory of State and Statecraft Based on Islamic Normativity (shar?)

3 From the Muqaddima to Bada?i? al-Silk fi ?aba?i? al-Mulk

2 Cornerstones of Ibn al-Azraq’s Political Theory

1 State Formation and State Disintegration in Ibn al-Azraq’s Political Thought

2 Ibn al-Azraq’s Different Categories of Political Rule

3 Arkan al-mulk (the Pillars of Institutional Rule): The Governmental, Religious, and Military Class as the Guardians of Continuity

3 The Relation between Islamic Normativeness (shar?) and Political Rule in Ibn al-Azraq’s Political Thought

1 Ibn al-Azraq’s All-Encompassing Notion of shar? with regard to Political Rule and Statecraft

2 Construing an All-Encompassing Notion of shar? with regard to Political Rule in Relation to Ibn Khaldun’s Social Theory

3 Conclusions: Ibn al-Azraq’s BS—Bringing Together al-Sha?ibi’s Theory of maqa?id al-Shari?a and Ibn Khaldun’s ?ilm al-?umran in a Theory of State and Statecraft

4 Summary and Outlook

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elena Sahin, Dr. phil. (2022), is an independent scholar of Islamic political thought receiving her doctorate from the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She held positions in the department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, was a research fellow at the Orient Institut Beirut and was granted a doctoral fellowship by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.