Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam

Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought

AvHan Hsien Liew

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book studies the relationship between political thought, preaching and emotions through the writings of Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201), a celebrated hortatory preacher in late-Abbasid Baghdad. Through an intertextual analysis of Ibn al-Jawzi's works in various genres, this book details how his ideal form of rulership reflected the emotional norms and pietistic moral virtues promoted in Muslim hortatory sermons. It also examines the emotional strategies deployed in his efforts to reform the rulers of his time. In highlighting the importance of piety in Ibn al-Jawzi's political discourses, the book points to a new reading of the history of Islamic political thought that, rather than foregrounding order and military prowess, considers competing political languages among medieval Muslim intellectuals. In doing so, it calls for the need to rethink notions of 'politics' and the 'political' when studying Islam.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-02-28
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399511292

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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.

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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.

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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