Presents general readers and specialists with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol Invasions. B... » 

Presents general readers and specialists with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol Invasions. Based on a wide variety of sources, it seeks to bring out the enormous scope and high level of historical interest of medieval Muslim thinking on this subject. «