Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-448) and index.
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Maslahah as a political concept / Asma Afsaruddin -- Sa'di's treatise on advice to the kings / Alireza Shomali and Mehrzad Boroujerdi -- Perso-Islamicate political ethic in relation to the sources of Islamic law / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- An anomaly in the history of Persian political thought / Javad Tabatabai -- Teaching wisdom : a Persian work of advice for Atabeg Ahmad of Luristan / Louise Marlow -- A Muslim state in a non-Muslim context : the Mughal case / Muzaffar Alam -- Al-Tahtawi's trip to Paris in light of recent historical analysis : travel literature or a mirror fro princes? / Peter Gran -- Law and the common good : to bring about a virtuous city or preserve the old order? Charles E. Butterworth -- What do Egypt's Islamists want? Moderate Islam and the rise of Islamic constitutionalism in Mubarak's Egypt / Bruce K. Rutherford -- The body corporate and the social body / Serif Mardin -- Cosmopolitanism past and present, Muslim and Western / Roxanne L. Euben -- God's caravan : Topoi and schemata in the history of Muslim political thought / Aziz Al-Azmeh.