Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) orations " and "Words Often Misspelled

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Jonathan Lyons shows just how much "Western" ideas owe to the Golden Age of Arab civilization

The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics

believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will

Originally published in 1953

Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) orations " and "Words Often MisspelledThis original study demonstrates how Ibn Taymiyyas influence shed new light on the entire trajectory of Islamic political thought. Although he did not reject the Caliphate ideal, as is commonly believed, he nevertheless radically redefined it by turning it into a rational political institution intended to serve the community (umma). Through creative reinterpretation, he deployed the Qur'anic concept of fitra (divinely endowed human nature) to center