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Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn Al-Jawzi's Political Thought

Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn Al-Jawzi's Political Thought

Liew, Han Hsien

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryIslamIraq History

ISBN10: 1399511297
ISBN13: 9781399511292
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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