Political thought in medieval Islam, 2009
By: Erwin I. J. Rosenthal (Ed.)
Title Political thought in medieval Islam
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2009
Publication Place Cambridge [u.a.]
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Edition No. Reprinted 1962
Categories Politics, Surveys, Law
Author(s) Erwin I. J. Rosenthal
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Muhammad founded a World-State as well as a faith; as Islam spread from its first centres, Muslim political thinkers had to apply the divinely revealed law of the Prophet to new circumstances. They had to relate new realities of power and authority to the ideal constitution which he had laid down and which his immediate successors had elaborated. Against this background Dr Rosenthal discusses the later Muslim philosophers who were influenced by the political thought of Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Greek thought modified the Islamic and yet was always subordinated to Muslim categories of thought and political needs. Dr Rosenthal thus surveys the chief traditions of Islamic political thought from the eighth to the end of the fifteenth centuries. He emphasises the basic unity given by the shared faith of the writers, without diminishing the individuality of each. Orientalists will welcome the book; so will historians of the medieval West, for it shows them the religious, political and intellectual positions underlying the expansion of Islam.

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On Natural Right and Other Unwritten Guides to Political Well-Being, 2006
By: Charles E. Butterworth
Title On Natural Right and Other Unwritten Guides to Political Well-Being
Type Article
Language English
Date 2006
Journal The Good Society
Volume 15
Issue 2
Pages 53-55
Categories Law, Politics
Author(s) Charles E. Butterworth
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Zwischen nomos und scharīʿa. Staatsverständnis und Staatsvision bei Averroes anhand seines Kommentars zu Platons Staat, 2002
By: Michael Jainzik
Title Zwischen nomos und scharīʿa. Staatsverständnis und Staatsvision bei Averroes anhand seines Kommentars zu Platons Staat
Type Article
Language German
Date 2002
Journal Concilium medii aevi. Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
Volume 5
Pages 143–186
Categories Politics, Law
Author(s) Michael Jainzik
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory, 2001
By: Averroes
Title Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 2001
Publication Place Provo, Utah
Publisher Brigham Young University Press
Series Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series
Categories Law, Politics, Relation between Philosophy and Theology
Author(s) Averroes
Publisher(s)
Translator(s) Charles E. Butterworth
Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) emerged from an eminent family in Muslim Spain to become the first and last great Aristotelian of the classical Islamic world; his meticulous commentaries influenced Christian thinkers and earned him favorable mention (and a relatively pleasant fate) in Dante’s Divina Commedia. The Book of the Decisive Treatise was and remains one his most important works and one of history’s best defenses of the legitimate role of reason in a community of faith. The text presents itself as a plea before a tribunal in which the divinely revealed Law of Islam is the sole authority; Averroës, critical of the anti-philosophical tone of the Islamic establishment, argues that the Law not only permits but also mandates the study of philosophy and syllogistic or logical reasoning, defending earlier Muslim philosophers and dismissing criticisms of them as more harmful to the Islamic community than the philosophers’ own views had been. As he details the three fundamental methods the Law uses to aid people of varied capacities and temperaments, Averroës reveals a carefully formed and remarkably argued conception of the boundaries and uses of faith and reason.

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Two Andalusian philosophers, 1999
By: Averroes, Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik Ibn-Ṭufail,
Title Two Andalusian philosophers
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1999
Publication Place London [u.a.]
Publisher Kegan Paul
Series The Kegan Paul Arabia library
Volume 6
Categories Relation between Philosophy and Theology, Law, Politics
Author(s) Averroes , Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik Ibn-Ṭufail ,
Publisher(s)
Translator(s) Jim Colville
The story of "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" by Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufayl and "The definitive statement" by Abu'l Walid Muhammad Ibn Rushd / translated from the Arabic with an introduction and notes by Jim Colville

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On the Idea of Potency: Juridical and Theological Roots of the Western Cultural Tradition, 2016
By: Emanuele Castrucci
Title On the Idea of Potency: Juridical and Theological Roots of the Western Cultural Tradition
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2016
Publication Place Edinburgh
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Series Encounters in Law & Philosophy: ELP
Categories Law, Surveys, Metaphysics, Politics
Author(s) Emanuele Castrucci
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
A critique of the metaphysical concept of power and potency in the history of Western jurisprudence Sweeping through the history of Western philosophy of law, Emanuele Castrucci deals with the metaphysical idea of potency as defined by Spinoza and Nietzsche, upsetting entrenched theories of jurisprudence. Castrucci first addresses how the idea of potency can change the meaning of the power ascribed to an omnipotent God. This brings together classical Greek philosophy with Jewish biblical exegesis, which Castrucci links through the juncture of Christianity. He then relates potency to the classical philosophical tradition in Aristotle's Metaphysics and its Arabic interpretations, particularly Ibn Rushd's (Averroës). This leads us to the genesis of natural law theory in Western philosophy, from Augustine to Aquinas and from Duns Scotus to Ockham. Moving on, Castrucci examines the inherently problematic concept of political theology, pitting Spinozan–Nietzschean potency against Kant and Enlightenment natural law to reveal the weaknesses inherent in the Enlightenment system. Finally, Castrucci applies the theories of Carl Schmitt to the philosophical rationalism of the Western tradition, showing us how it has failed to contain absolute power in a juridical sense.

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Political thought in medieval Islam, 2009
By: Erwin I. J. Rosenthal (Ed.)
Title Political thought in medieval Islam
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2009
Publication Place Cambridge [u.a.]
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Edition No. Reprinted 1962
Categories Politics, Surveys, Law
Author(s) Erwin I. J. Rosenthal
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Muhammad founded a World-State as well as a faith; as Islam spread from its first centres, Muslim political thinkers had to apply the divinely revealed law of the Prophet to new circumstances. They had to relate new realities of power and authority to the ideal constitution which he had laid down and which his immediate successors had elaborated. Against this background Dr Rosenthal discusses the later Muslim philosophers who were influenced by the political thought of Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Greek thought modified the Islamic and yet was always subordinated to Muslim categories of thought and political needs. Dr Rosenthal thus surveys the chief traditions of Islamic political thought from the eighth to the end of the fifteenth centuries. He emphasises the basic unity given by the shared faith of the writers, without diminishing the individuality of each. Orientalists will welcome the book; so will historians of the medieval West, for it shows them the religious, political and intellectual positions underlying the expansion of Islam.

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The Contention between Secular and Revealed Law: Analyzing Ibn Rushd’s Solution to the Problem of the “Virtuous Society”, 2019
By: Jaan S. Islam
Title The Contention between Secular and Revealed Law: Analyzing Ibn Rushd’s Solution to the Problem of the “Virtuous Society”
Type Article
Language English
Date 2019
Journal Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies
Volume 4
Issue 1
Pages 43–65
Categories Politics, Law, Commentary, Plato
Author(s) Jaan S. Islam
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
This article is an analysis of the political thought of Ibn Rushd and its significance for the current conflict in Islamic political thought between liberal, secular and conservative Islamist thinkers over the meaning of the “virtuous society” and how it can be implemented. It is argued that the thought of Ibn Rushd offers a concept of the virtuous society that reconciles secular law and religious Sharī‘a law. The article analyzes Ibn Rushd’s Commentary on Plato’s Republic, and assesses it as potentially being able to reconcile the philosophical conflict between logically discerned law and revealed law. It is contended that the separation between “religious” and “political” (i.e., philosophical) domains often attributed to Ibn Rushd does not fully consider the entirety of Ibn Rushd’s writings and interprets his works without regard for their historical and religious contextual significance.

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Two Andalusian philosophers, 1999
By: Averroes, Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik Ibn-Ṭufail,
Title Two Andalusian philosophers
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1999
Publication Place London [u.a.]
Publisher Kegan Paul
Series The Kegan Paul Arabia library
Volume 6
Categories Relation between Philosophy and Theology, Law, Politics
Author(s) Averroes , Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik Ibn-Ṭufail ,
Publisher(s)
Translator(s) Jim Colville
The story of "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" by Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufayl and "The definitive statement" by Abu'l Walid Muhammad Ibn Rushd / translated from the Arabic with an introduction and notes by Jim Colville

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Zwischen nomos und scharīʿa. Staatsverständnis und Staatsvision bei Averroes anhand seines Kommentars zu Platons Staat, 2002
By: Michael Jainzik
Title Zwischen nomos und scharīʿa. Staatsverständnis und Staatsvision bei Averroes anhand seines Kommentars zu Platons Staat
Type Article
Language German
Date 2002
Journal Concilium medii aevi. Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
Volume 5
Pages 143–186
Categories Politics, Law
Author(s) Michael Jainzik
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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