Concept
Al-Mawardi
Overview
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Habib (Arabic: علي إبن محمد إبن حبيب, romanized: ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb; c. 974–1058), commonly known by the nisba al-Mawardi (Arabic: الماوردي, romanized: al-Māwardī), was a Sunni polymath and a Shafi'i jurist, legal theoretician, muhaddith, theologian, sociologist and an expert in political science. He is considered to be an eminent scholar of his time who wrote on numerous subjects, including Qur'anic interpretations, religion, government, public and constitutional law, language, ethics and belles-lettres.
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According to this explanation, a person that has a true knowledge of the whole Law is called wise in a double sense; he is wise because the Law instructs him in the highest truths, and secondly, because it teaches him good morals. But as the truths contained in the Law are taught by way of tradition, not by a philosophical method, the knowledge of the Law, and the acquisition of true wisdom, are treated in the books…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
States what Al-Mawardi is.
They should not merely be free for the entry of the Mussalmans of the world by the grace or the license of non-Muslim powers, but should be the possession and property of Islam in the fullest degree. It is a religions obligation, on every Mussalman to go forth and help the Khalifa in every possible way where his unaided efforts in the defence of the Khilifat have failed. The grievance of the Indian Mussalmans is…
Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
Close in meaning to Al-Mawardi; the term itself is not named.
The bulk of the Medina speeches are indeed rather collections of separate decisions or “rulings” put together for convenience of reference by the Muslims themselves than separate and complete orations. But as the practical teaching is interspersed with frequent and verbose prophetical legends of the kind with which the reader is already perhaps only too familiar and with animadversions on the political parties of…
Prophet Muhammad, The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad
Close in meaning to Al-Mawardi; the term itself is not named.
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- Al-Ghazali
- Al-Farabi
- Ash'arism
- Sociology
- Tawhid
- Ibn Khaldun
- Political philosophy
- Kalam
- Political science
- Polymath
- Islamic Golden Age
- Baghdad
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Basra
- Islam
- Iraq
- Routledge
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Political philosophy.