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BL
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| Record Number
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633260
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dltt
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Crone, Patricia,1945-2015.
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| Title & Author
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Medieval Islamic political thought /\ Patricia Crone.
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| Edition Statement
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[New ed.].
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| Publication Statement
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Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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The new Edinburgh Islamic surveys
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| Page. NO
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xii, 462 pages :: genealogical tables ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0748621946
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: 9780748621941
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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I. The beginnings -- The origins of government -- The first civil war and sect formation -- The Umayyads -- -- II. The waning of the tribal tradition, c. 700-900 -- Introduction -- The Khārijites -- The Muʻtazilites -- The Shīʻites of the Umayyad period -- The ʻAbbāsids and Shīʻism -- The Zaydīs -- The Imamis -- The Ḥadīth party -- -- III. Coping with a fragmented world -- Introduction -- The Persian tradition and advice literature -- The Greek tradition and "Political science" -- The Ismailis -- The Sunnis -- -- IV. Government and society -- The nature of government -- The functions of government -- Visions of freedom -- The social order -- Muslims and non-Muslims -- Epilogue: religion, government, and society revisited.
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| Subject
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Islam and politics-- History-- To 1500.
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Political culture-- Islamic countries-- History-- To 1500.
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Political science-- Islamic countries-- History-- To 1500.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.20917670902
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| LC Classification
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DS38.2.C76 2005
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