Format:
1 Online-Ressource (417 pages)
ISBN:
9781136220180
Content:
From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, "the Circle of Justice" as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of power in the Middle East. The Circle of Justice depicts graphically how a government's justice toward the population generates political power, military strength, prosperity, and good administration. This book traces this set of relationships from its earliest appearance in the political writings of the Sumerians through four millennia of Middle Eastern culture. It explores how people conceptualized and acted upon this powerful insig
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Cover; A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East: The Circle of Justice from Mesopotamia to Globalization; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; What is the Circle of Justice?; Sources and methods; Outline of chapters; 2. Mesopotamia; Sumer and Akkad (2500-1800 BCE); Laws, decrees, and judgments (2112-1104 BCE); Assyria (2000-539 BCE); Conclusion; 3. Persia; Achaemenids (539-311 BCE); Seleucids and Parthians (311 BCE-224 CE); Sasanians (224-637 CE); Conclusion; 4. The Islamic Empire; The Arab kingdom (622-750)
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Abbasid political culture (750-945)Abbasid historians and the Circle of Justice (c.850-950); Conclusion; 5. Politics in transition; The breakup of the Abbasid empire (c.850-999); Buyids and Fatimids (945-1171); Caliphs, power, and justice (945-1055); Conclusion; 6. The Turks and Islamic civilization; Early Turkish empires (522-1186); Seljuks and their advisors (1038-1318); An integrated legacy (c.1100-1308); Conclusion; 7. Mongols and Mamluks; The Mongols of the steppe (1206-1260); Mongol regime and Near Eastern state (1258-1335); The reforms of Ghazan Khan (1295-1303)
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Post-Mongol polities (1335-1506)Mamluks and Ibn Khaldun (1250-1517); Conclusion; 8. Early modern empires; The era of expansion (1299-1520); War, cultural exchange, and the Safavids (1501-1722); The "Golden Age" of Suleyman the Magnificent (1520-1566); The post-classical era (1566-1789); Conclusion; 9. Modernization and revolution; Justice and the beginnings of modernization (1789-1839); Institutional modernization and the Tanzimat (1839-1876); The quest for political modernization (1848-1876); Injustice and revolution (1876-1911); Conclusion; 10. The Middle East in the twentieth century
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The "bourgeois patronage state" (1908-1952)The modern kings and mazalim (1924-c.1975); Arab socialism, the "just welfare state" (1952-c.1975); Globalization and the Circle of Justice (c.1975-2000); Conclusion; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415503617
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East : The Circle of Justice From Mesopotamia to Globalization
Language:
English
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