Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate - Hardcover
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Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate
Political Thought in the Mamluk Period covers the political thought produced by legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period as they tackled a central question: how best to govern their communities. It proposes a taxonomy of the main themes and concerns of this political thought under the three ideals of the rule of law, limited government and...
Mohamad El Merheb is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the University of Groningen. He is a historian of Islamic political thought and studies the ideal of 'the rule of law' as expressed in advice literature under the Mamluks, Ayyubids, and Seljuqs. Mohamad's other research interests include the crusades, the depiction of kings Louis IX and Frederic II in Islamic historiography, and...
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