Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399511292 (ISBN)
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This book studies the relationship between political thought, preaching and emotions through the writings of Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201), a celebrated hortatory preacher in late-Abbasid Baghdad. Through an intertextual analysis of Ibn al-Jawzi’s works in various genres, this book details how his ideal form of rulership reflected the emotional norms and pietistic moral virtues promoted in Muslim hortatory sermons. It also examines the emotional strategies deployed in his efforts to reform the rulers of his time. In highlighting the importance of piety in Ibn al-Jawzi’s political discourses, the book points to a new reading of the history of Islamic political thought that, rather than foregrounding order and military prowess, considers competing political languages among medieval Muslim intellectuals. In doing so, it calls for the need to rethink notions of ‘politics’ and the ‘political’ when studying Islam.
Han Hsien Liew is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. In addition to the history of Islamic political thought, his research interests include Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic theology, Islam in Southeast Asia and the history of emotions. His work has been published in Al-Qanṭara: Revista de Estudios Árabes, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society and Arabica. He was recently awarded a Herodotus Fund Membership from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Introduction: Piety and Emotions in Medieval Islamic Political Thought
Part I. Historical and Intellectual Background
1. Politics and Society in Late Abbasid Baghdad
2. The Life and Career of Ibn al-Jawzi
3. Intellectual Trends in Late Abbasid Political Thought
Part II. Conceptualising Ideal Islamic Rulership
4. Homiletic Piety: Moral Virtues and Emotional Norms
5. Embodying Homiletic Piety: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Biographies of Caliphs
Part III. An Ameliorative Approach to Politics
6. Legitimising Politics: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Reassessment of Ruler-Scholar Relations
7. ‘I Put My Fear for You before My Fear of You’: Talattuf (Tact) as a Mode of Political
Engagement
8. The Cursing of Yazid ibn Muʿawiya: Debating Rebellion against Sinful and Unjust Rulers
Conclusion: Redefining the Political
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.2.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399511292 / 9781399511292 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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