Islamic Political Thought

Political philosophers writing within the Islamic tradition on the just ordering of the community and the state, from the early Arabic synthesis of Aristotelian and Platonic political theory, through the historian and social theorist who developed a systematic account of the rise and fall of states and dynasties grounded in group solidarity, to modern political thinkers writing from within the same broad tradition on civilizational renewal, reform of despotic and arbitrary rule, and the political thought of North African and Berber intellectual life read alongside Islamic political theory.