dc.contributor.author
Toral-Niehoff, Isabel
dc.date.accessioned
2022-01-26T05:50:00Z
dc.date.available
2022-01-26T05:50:00Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/33689
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-33409
dc.description.abstract
What were the qualities ascribed to the good ruler in medieval Islam and how is he depicted? Which examples were used to illustrate the adequate behaviour of a monarch and what was the ruler’s expected relationship to his entourage – ministers, counsellors and family?
The Arabic textual tradition includes a wealth of texts on political theory and good government that can serve as source basis to answer these questions.
Writings dealing with the quality of the legitimate and good ruler, his appropriate conduct, and the effective organisation of government, abound in the vast ocean of medieval Arabic and Persian literature. They appear disseminated in a multiplicity of textual genres,such as treatises on ethics and political philosophy, mirrors of princes, advice literature, administration handbooks, legal books, historiography, literary anthologies and encyclopaedias. Since all these texts were developed by various social groups, they reflect diverse perspectives on the topic: whether that of the clerical class of administrators (kuttāb) and courtiers, the schools of legal scholars (ʿulamāʾ), theologians (mutakallimūn) or the circles of philosophers (falāsifa).
en
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject
political philosophy
en
dc.subject
mirror of princes
en
dc.subject.ddc
800 Literature::890 Literatures of other languages::892 Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic
dc.title
Justice and good administration in medieval Islam
dc.identifier.sepid
82939
dc.title.subtitle
the book of the Pearl of the Ruler by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860-940)
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitle
The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1515/9783110725612-018
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.editor
Philip Michael Forness
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.editor
Alexandra Hasse-Ungeheuer
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.editor
Hartmut Leppin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
De Gruyter
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace
Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
383
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
396
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110725612-018/html
refubium.affiliation
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Arabistik
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.isbn
978-3-11-072469-1
dcterms.isPartOf.eisbn
9783110725612