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Edinburgh University Press Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture)

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Studies the role of preaching and emotions in medieval Islamic political thought Explores the connection between hortatory preaching and political thinking Challenges scholarship that frames the history of Islamic political thought as a gradual evolution towards the principle of ‘might is right’ Analyses Ibn al-Jawzi’s political works in relation to his preaching manuals, sermon collections, polemics and biographies of caliphs Uncovers the emotional vocabulary and norms of Arabic hortatory sermons Provides an accessible survey of political concepts found in medieval Muslim advice literature and legal and theological treatises 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.

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Brand: Edinburgh University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1399511297
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Religious Groups Studies > Islamic
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 February 2026
Listed Since: 11 June 2025

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