Han Hsien Liew is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. In addition to the history of Islamic political thought, his research interests include Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic theology, Islam in Southeast Asia and the history of emotions. His work has been published in Al-Qanṭara: Revista de Estudios Árabes, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society and Arabica. He was recently awarded a Herodotus Fund Membership from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Han Hsien Liew’s work stakes out new ground for the study of politics in Islam. Tabling the modernist focus on power for the intricate role of preaching—emotionally rich and morally challenging—in setting norms of rulership in Islam, it is a clarion call to take pietistic ideals seriously amidst Islam’s hierarchies.

• AcknowledgementsConventions Introduction: Piety and Emotions in Medieval Islamic Political ThoughtPart I. Historical and Intellectual Background1. Politics and Society in Late Abbasid Baghdad2. The Life and Career of Ibn al-Jawzi3. Intellectual Trends in Late Abbasid Political ThoughtPart II. Conceptualising Ideal Islamic Rulership4. Homiletic Piety: Moral Virtues and Emotional Norms5. Embodying Homiletic Piety: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Biographies of CaliphsPart III. An Ameliorative Approach to Politics6. Legitimising Politics: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Reassessment of Ruler-Scholar Relations7. ‘I Put My Fear for You before My Fear of You’: Talattuf (Tact) as a Mode of PoliticalEngagement8. The Cursing of Yazid ibn Muʿawiya: Debating Rebellion against Sinful and Unjust RulersConclusion: Redefining the PoliticalBibliographyIndex

Han Hsien Liew is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. In addition to the history of Islamic political thought, his research interests include Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic theology, Islam in Southeast Asia and the history of emotions. His work has been published in Al-Qanṭara: Revista de Estudios Árabes, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society and Arabica. He was recently awarded a Herodotus Fund Membership from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Han Hsien Liew’s work stakes out new ground for the study of politics in Islam. Tabling the modernist focus on power for the intricate role of preaching—emotionally rich and morally challenging—in setting norms of rulership in Islam, it is a clarion call to take pietistic ideals seriously amidst Islam’s hierarchies.

• AcknowledgementsConventions Introduction: Piety and Emotions in Medieval Islamic Political ThoughtPart I. Historical and Intellectual Background1. Politics and Society in Late Abbasid Baghdad2. The Life and Career of Ibn al-Jawzi3. Intellectual Trends in Late Abbasid Political ThoughtPart II. Conceptualising Ideal Islamic Rulership4. Homiletic Piety: Moral Virtues and Emotional Norms5. Embodying Homiletic Piety: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Biographies of CaliphsPart III. An Ameliorative Approach to Politics6. Legitimising Politics: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Reassessment of Ruler-Scholar Relations7. ‘I Put My Fear for You before My Fear of You’: Talattuf (Tact) as a Mode of PoliticalEngagement8. The Cursing of Yazid ibn Muʿawiya: Debating Rebellion against Sinful and Unjust RulersConclusion: Redefining the PoliticalBibliographyIndex

Han Hsien Liew is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. In addition to the history of Islamic political thought, his research interests include Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic theology, Islam in Southeast Asia and the history of emotions. His work has been published in Al-Qanṭara: Revista de Estudios Árabes, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society and Arabica. He was recently awarded a Herodotus Fund Membership from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Han Hsien Liew’s work stakes out new ground for the study of politics in Islam. Tabling the modernist focus on power for the intricate role of preaching—emotionally rich and morally challenging—in setting norms of rulership in Islam, it is a clarion call to take pietistic ideals seriously amidst Islam’s hierarchies.

• AcknowledgementsConventions Introduction: Piety and Emotions in Medieval Islamic Political ThoughtPart I. Historical and Intellectual Background1. Politics and Society in Late Abbasid Baghdad2. The Life and Career of Ibn al-Jawzi3. Intellectual Trends in Late Abbasid Political ThoughtPart II. Conceptualising Ideal Islamic Rulership4. Homiletic Piety: Moral Virtues and Emotional Norms5. Embodying Homiletic Piety: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Biographies of CaliphsPart III. An Ameliorative Approach to Politics6. Legitimising Politics: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Reassessment of Ruler-Scholar Relations7. ‘I Put My Fear for You before My Fear of You’: Talattuf (Tact) as a Mode of PoliticalEngagement8. The Cursing of Yazid ibn Muʿawiya: Debating Rebellion against Sinful and Unjust RulersConclusion: Redefining the PoliticalBibliographyIndex