Ghazali's Politics in Context (Hardcover, New)

Yazeed Said

Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

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Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali is perhaps the most celebrated Muslim theologian of medieval Islam yet little attention has been paid to his personal theology. This book sets out to investigate the relationship between law and politics in the writings of Ghazali and aims to establish the extent to which this relationship explains Ghazali's political theology. Articles concerned with Ghazali's political thought have invariably paid little attention to his theology and his thinking about God, neglecting to ask what role these have contributed to his definition of politics and political ethics. Here, the question of Ghazali's politics takes into account his thinking on God, knowledge, law, and the Koran, in addition to political systems and ethics. Yazeed Said puts forward the convincing argument that if Ghazali's legal and political epistemology provide a polemic analogous to his writings on philosophy, for which he is more famed, they would reveal to us a manifesto for an alternative order, concerned with a coherent definition of the community, or Ummah. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the Middle East, political theology and Islamic studies.

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Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	2013
Authors:	Yazeed Said
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	224
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-62513-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Islamic & Arabic philosophy Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Islamic & Arabic philosophy Promotions
LSN:	0-415-62513-0
Barcode:	9780415625135