God's Rule - Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought

Patricia Crone

Paper, 472 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13291-6
$30.00

June, 2004
Cloth, 472 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13290-9
$90.00

Part One: The Beginnings

1. The Origins of Government

2. The First Civil War and Sect Formation

3. The Umayyads

Part Two: The Waning of the Tribal Tradition, c.700-900

4. General

5. The Kharijites

6. The Mu'tazilites

7. The Shi'ites of the Umayyad Period

8. The 'Abbasids and Shi'ism

9. The Zaydis

10. The Imamis

11. The Hadith Party

Part Three Coping with a Fragmented World

12. General

13. The Persian Tradition and Advice Literature

14. The Greek Tradition and 'Political Science'

15. The Ismailis

16. The Sunnis

Part Four: Government and Society

17. The Nature of Government

18. The Functions of Government

19. Visions of Freedom

20. The Social Order

21. Muslims and Non-Muslims

(a) Infidels

(b) Muslims as Infidels

22. Epilogue: Religion, Government and Society Revisited

Bibliography, Abbreviations and Conventions

Index and Glossary

Related Subjects

• Islam
• Middle East Studies
• Political Philosophy

About the Author

Patricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is author of several books including Pre-industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-modern World; Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law; Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam; and Slaves on Horses: the Evolution of Islamic Polity.

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