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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Alphabetical List of Entries
Topical List of Entries
Contributors
Maps
The Muslim World in 2010: Cultural Blocks and Populations
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
A
‘Abbas I (1571–1629)
Abbasids (750–1258)
‘Abd al-Hamid al-Katib b. Yahya al-‘Amiri (d. 750)
‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri (1808–83)
‘Abd al-Rahman, ‘Umar (b. 1938)
‘Abd al-Raziq, ‘Ali (1887–1966)
abdication
‘Abduh, Muhammad (1849–1905)
Abdülhamid II (1842–1918)
abodes of Islam, war, and truce
absolutism
Abu Bakr (ca. 573–634)
Abu Hanifa (699–767)
Abu Yusuf (ca. 731–98)
advice
Advice-to-Kings. See Mirrors for Princes
al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din (1838–97)
Afghanistan
‘Aflaq, Michel (1910–89)
Africa. See East Africa; North Africa; South Africa; West Africa
Aga Khan
Ahmad, Israr (1932–2010)
Ahmad b. Hanbal (780–855)
Ahmadis
Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624)
‘A’isha (ca. 614–78)
Akbar the Great (1542–1605)
‘Alawis
Algeria
‘Ali b. Abi Talib (ca. 599–661)
Aligarh
alliances
Almohads (1130–1269)
Almoravids (1056–1147)
Amal
anarchism
apartheid
apocalypse
apostasy
Arab nationalism
Arafat, Yasir (1929–2004)
arbitration
Ash‘aris
‘Ashura’
Asia. See Central Asia; Southeast Asia
astrology
asylum
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal (1881–1938)
Aurangzeb (1618–1707)
authority
ayatollah
Ayyubids (1169–1250)
Azhar University
B
Babur, Zahir al-Din (1483–1530)
Baghdad
Bangladesh
al-Banna, Hasan (1906–49)
Barelwis
Ba‘th Party
bazaar
Beirut
Berbers
Bin Laden, Osama (1957–2011)
blasphemy
Brethren of Purity
brotherhoods
bureaucracy
Buyids (945–1062)
C
Cairo
caliph, caliphate
capitalism
censorship
Central Asia
charity
China
chivalry
Christian-Muslim relations
citizenship
city
city (philosophical)
civil society
civil war
clients
coinage
collective obligations
colonialism
commanding right and forbidding wrong
communism
community
Companions of the Prophet
consensus
constitutionalism
Constitution of Medina
consultation
contracts
conversion
coup d’état
Crusades
culture
custom
D
Dan Fodio, Usman (1754–1817)
Dawani, Jalal al-Din (1427–1502)
Delhi
Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)
democracy
demographics
Deobandis
difference of opinion
diplomacy
dissent, opposition, resistance
dissimulation
division of labor
Druze
E
East Africa
economic theory
education
Egypt
elections
endowment
environment
equality
ethics
Ethiopia and Eritrea
ethnicity
Europe
excommunication
exegesis
F
Fadlallah, Muhammad Husayn (1935–2010)
faith
family
al-Farabi, Abu Nasr (ca. 878–950)
Faraj, Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salam (1954–82)
Fatimids (909–1171)
fatwa
freedom
free will
Friday prayer
friendship
fundamentalism
G
al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya
genealogy
Ghazali (ca. 1058–1111)
ghāzī
Ghaznavids (977–1086)
Ghurids (1009–1215)
globalization
God
governance
government
grievance
guardianship of the jurist
guilds
H
hadith
Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985–1021)
Hamas
Hasan b. ‘Ali (ca. 624–70)
heresiography
heresy and innovation
hijra
Hizbullah
holy places
honor
household
human nature
human rights
Husayn b. ‘Ali (626–80)
hypocrisy
I
Ibadis
Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad (1703–92)
Ibn al-Muqaffa‘ (ca. 720–56)
Ibn Bajja (d. 1139)
Ibn Hazm (994–1064)
Ibn Jama‘a (1241–1333)
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)
Ibn Rushd (1126–98)
Ibn Sina, Abu ‘Ali (980–1037)
Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328)
Ibn Tufayl (ca. 1105–85)
Ibn Tumart (ca. 1080–1130)
ideology
ijtihād and taqlīd
Ikhwan al-Safa’. See Brethren of Purity
Ilkhanids (1256–1336)
imamate
imperialism
India
individualism
Indonesia
inquisition
intercession
international Islamic organizations
international relations
Iqbal, Muhammad (1877–1938)
Iran
Iraq
Islamic Jihad
Islamization
Isma‘il I (1487–1524)
Isma‘ilis
Istanbul
J
Ja‘far al-Sadiq (702–65)
jāhiliyya
Jalal Al-i Ahmad (1923–69)
Jama‘at-i Islami
Jerusalem
jihad
Jinnah, Mohammad ‘Ali (1876–1948)
jizya
Jordan
judge
judicial courts
jurisprudence
justice
K
Kadızadeli
Karbala
Karramis
Kharijis
Khilafat movement (1919–24)
Khomeini, Ayatollah (1902–89)
Khunji, Fazl Allah b. Ruzbihan (1455–1521)
kinship
knowledge
L
leadership
Lebanon
liberalism
liberation theology
libertarianism
loyalty
M
madrasa
Mahdi
Mahdi of the Sudan (1844–85)
Malaysia
Malcolm X (1925–65)
Malik b. Anas (712–95)
Mamluks (1250–1517)
Ma’mun (786–833)
martyrdom
masses
Mawardi (974–1058)
Mawdudi, Abu al-A‘la (1903–79)
mawlid
Mecca and Medina
media
messianism
military
minorities
minorities, jurisprudence of
Mir Damad (1561–1631)
Mirrors for Princes
modernism
modernity
Mohammed, W. D. (1933–2008)
monarchy
Mongols
Morocco
mosque
Mu‘awiya (602–80)
mufti/grand mufti
Mughals (1526–1857)
Muhammad (570–632)
Muhammad, Elijah (1897–1975)
Muhammad ‘Ali (1769–1849)
mujahidin. See jihad
Mulla Sadra (ca. 1572–1640)
Mulla ‘Umar (b. 1959)
Murji’is
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim League
Mu‘tazilis
N
Nasser, Gamal Abdel (1918–70)
nationalism
Nation of Islam
nation-state
natural law
Nazim Hikmet (1902–63)
Nigeria
Nizam al-Mulk (1018–92)
Nizamiyya
Nizaris
nonviolence
North Africa
North America
notables
O
oath of allegiance
obedience
Ottomans (1299–1924)
P
Pakistan
Palestine
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
Pan-Islamism
Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)
parliament
patrimonial state
patronage
People of the Book
philosopher-king
philosophy
piety and asceticism
pilgrimage
Pillars of Islam
pluralism and tolerance
police
political ritual
preaching
privacy
propaganda
prophecy
public interest
public opinion
public sphere
pulpit
punishment
Q
Qadaris
Qaddafi, Mu‘ammar (1942–2011)
al-Qaeda
Qajars (1789–1925)
al-Qaradawi, Yusuf (b. 1926)
al-Qarafi, Shihab al-Din (1228–85)
Qarmatians
quietism and activism
Qur’an
Quraysh
R
racism
Rahman, Fazlur (1919–88)
al-Razi, Fakhr al-Din (1149–1209)
rebellion
representation
republicanism
revival and reform
revolutions
Rida, Muhammad Rashid (1865–1935)
Rightly Guided Caliphate (632–61)
rights
royal court
S
al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir (1935–80)
Safavids (1501–1722)
Sa‘id Nursi (1877–1960)
Saladin (1138–93)
Salafis
Samanids (819–1005)
Saudi Arabia
Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–98)
Sayyid Qutb (1906–66)
secularism
Seljuqs (1055–1194)
al-Shafi‘i, Muhammad b. Idris (767–820)
shāhānshāh
Shahnama
Shah Waliullah (1703–62)
Shamil (1797–1871)
shari‘a
Shari‘ati, ‘Ali (1933–77)
al-Shawkani, Muhammad b. ‘Ali (1760–1834)
al-Shaybani, Muhammad b. al-Hasan (749–805)
shaykh, pīr
shaykh al-Islam
Shi‘ism
Shu‘ubis
al-siyāsa al-shar‘iyya. See governance
slavery
socialism
solidarity
source of emulation
South Africa
Southeast Asia
sovereignty
Spain and Portugal (Andalus)
succession
Sudan
Sufism
al-Suhrawardi, Abu Hafs ‘Umar (ca. 1145–1234)
suicide
Süleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566)
sultan
sunna
Sunnism
Syria
T
Tablighi Jama‘at
Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed (1909–85)
Taliban
Tamerlane (1336–1405)
Tanzimat
al-Tawhidi, Abu Hayyan (ca. 950–1023)
taxation
terrorism
theocracy
theology
Thousand and One Nights
Timurids (1370–1506)
torture
trade and commerce
traditional political thought
Transoxiana
treason
Treaty of ‘Umar
tribalism
Tunisia
al-Turabi, Hasan (b. 1932)
Turkey
al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201–74)
tyranny
U
Uighurs
‘ulama’
‘Umar b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz (ca. 680–720)
‘Umar b. al-Khattab (ca. 580–644)
Umayyads (661–750)
usurper
‘Uthman b. ‘Affan (ca. 579–656)
utopia
V
veil
violence
vizier
W
welfare state. See public interest
West, the
West Africa
Westernization
women
Y
Yemen
Young Turks
Z
Zahiris
al-Zawahiri, Ayman (b. 1951)
Zaydis
Zia-ul-Haq (1924–88)
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