The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization

In: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History

Abstract

Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Determining the Basis for Political Discourse for the Next Generation -- What this Work Seeks to Actually Do -- Islam and Governance-A Brief Overview of Last 20 Years -- Carpe Diem!-Why Now is the Time for Scholars to Offer New Ideas -- Going Back to Get to the Future -- Plato, Aristotle, and Ancient Greek Scholarship -- Case Studies and Application -- References -- Part I Historical Context and Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2 The Trajectory of the Development of Islamic Thought-A Comparison Between Two Earlier and Two Later Scholars -- Introduction -- Peripateticism Within the Early Islamic Philosophical Discourse -- A Brief Look at Some of the Major Schools Kalām Within the Sunni Discourse -- Al-Fārābī: The Second Teacher -- Ibn Rushd: The Symbiosis of Reason and Faith -- Orthodoxy and the Inward Turn Following 1258 CE -- Ibn Taymiyyah: The Conservative Reformer of the Thirteenth Century -- Mohammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb: An Eighteenth-Century Conservative Ḥanbalī Response to bid'ah in the Islamic Discourse -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 The Ontological Framing of this Model of a Contemporary Islamic Governed State -- Introduction -- Why not the Enlightenment or Liberalism? -- A Closer Look at the Applicability of Aristotle in this Model -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Considering Leadership and Laws in a Contemporary Islamic Governed State -- Introduction: A Look at Some Specific Leadership Qualities -- Balancing Power with Restraint -- A Closer Look at Some of the Ideas of Ayatollah Khomeini -- Sharī'ah Versus Fiqh-Two Different Terms with Two Different Meanings -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Considering Bureaucracy and Democracy in a Contemporary Islamic Governed State -- Introduction