Kitāb al-Aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah

العنوان	Kitāb al-Aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah
تاريخ النشر:	1881
الموضوع	Islamic courts--Early works to 1800, Judges--Islamic Empire, Judicial power (Islamic law), Judicial process (Islamic law), Justice, Administration of (Islamic law), Public law (Islamic law)
النوع	kitap
اللغة	العربية
رقمي	نعم
مخطوط	لا
المكتبة:	مكتبة هارفارد
معرف أصل المكتبة	LCCN: 76970933, LCCallNum: KBP1572 .M396 1881
رقم السجل	TN_cdi_loca_primary_76970933
موقع المكتبة	ONLINE ACCESS
التاريخ	1881
ملاحظات	Al-aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah (Rules for governing), by Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi (died 1058), is known as the earliest comprehensive work on governing the Islamic state. It combines theoretical reflections on the nature of the state and the qualifications of the caliph and his officials with practical guidance on the application of legal principles for judges. The influence of Al-aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah has varied over the years. In his English translation, scholar Asadullah Yate treats the work as of antiquarian interest, stating that it "affords insights into aspects of the deen (religion) that have all but vanished in the twentieth century of the Christian era." Today, however, with the reappearance of Islamic religiosity, its treatment of statehood and leadership is regarded as of more importance. In straightforward, unadorned prose, al-Mawardi covers qualifications for leadership, requirements for high executive and judicial office, and the determination of primacy among rival caliphs or military regimes. This last subject was in fact the stimulus for him to write the book. Al-Mawardi lived in Baghdad at a time when the Abbasid caliphs were fighting to restore their primacy in confrontation with numerous rivals, among them the Shia Buyid dynasty and their Sunni rivals the Seljuks. A staunch Sunni, al-Mawardi argues for a realistic statecraft based on principles he discerned in the Qurʼan and in the life and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. al-Mawardi appears to have been born in humble circumstances in Basra, southern Iraq. His family sent him to Baghdad for education. He rose to a position of influence at the Abbasid court through his writings on government. For all his importance, he has received little attention from biographers. Some authors make the unsubstantiated claim that his family was Kurdish, while in other cases historians incorrectly place him among a group of Meccan theoreticians who were out of touch with the real circumstances of Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo and thus could not have composed this work. Published in 1881, the edition presented here is from the collections of the Law Library of the Library of Congress. World Digital Library.
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Kitāb al-Aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah

تاريخ النشر 1881

الموضوع Islamic courts--Early works to 1800, Judges--Islamic Empire, Judicial power (Islamic law), Judicial process (Islamic law), Justice, Administration of (Islamic law), Public law (Islamic law)

النوع kitap

اللغة العربية

رقمي نعم

مخطوط لا

المكتبة مكتبة هارفارد

معرف أصل المكتبة LCCN: 76970933, LCCallNum: KBP1572 .M396 1881

رقم السجل TN_cdi_loca_primary_76970933

موقع المكتبة ONLINE ACCESS

التاريخ 1881

ملاحظات Al-aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah (Rules for governing), by Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi (died 1058), is known as the earliest comprehensive work on governing the Islamic state. It combines theoretical reflections on the nature of the state and the qualifications of the caliph and his officials with practical guidance on the application of legal principles for judges. The influence of Al-aḥkām al-sulṭānīyah has varied over the years. In his English translation, scholar Asadullah Yate treats the work as of antiquarian interest, stating that it "affords insights into aspects of the deen (religion) that have all but vanished in the twentieth century of the Christian era." Today, however, with the reappearance of Islamic religiosity, its treatment of statehood and leadership is regarded as of more importance. In straightforward, unadorned prose, al-Mawardi covers qualifications for leadership, requirements for high executive and judicial office, and the determination of primacy among rival caliphs or military regimes. This last subject was in fact the stimulus for him to write the book. Al-Mawardi lived in Baghdad at a time when the Abbasid caliphs were fighting to restore their primacy in confrontation with numerous rivals, among them the Shia Buyid dynasty and their Sunni rivals the Seljuks. A staunch Sunni, al-Mawardi argues for a realistic statecraft based on principles he discerned in the Qurʼan and in the life and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. al-Mawardi appears to have been born in humble circumstances in Basra, southern Iraq. His family sent him to Baghdad for education. He rose to a position of influence at the Abbasid court through his writings on government. For all his importance, he has received little attention from biographers. Some authors make the unsubstantiated claim that his family was Kurdish, while in other cases historians incorrectly place him among a group of Meccan theoreticians who were out of touch with the real circumstances of Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo and thus could not have composed this work. Published in 1881, the edition presented here is from the collections of the Law Library of the Library of Congress. World Digital Library.

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