Redefining the Muslim community : ethnicity, religion, and politics in the thought of Alfarabi
tarafından
 
Orwin, Alexander, author.

Başlık
Redefining the Muslim community : ethnicity, religion, and politics in the thought of Alfarabi

Yazar
Orwin, Alexander, author.

ISBN
9780812249040

Yazar Ek Girişi
Orwin, Alexander, author.

Fiziksel Tanımlama
viii, 250 pages ; 24 cm

İçerik
Contents A Note on Citations and Abbreviations Introduction. Alfarabi and the Question of the Umma (Nation) Chapter 1. The Nation in Plato and Aristotle: An Obstacle to Virtuous Rule Chapter 2. From Speechlessness to Civilization: The Evolution of the Umma Chapter 3. Philosophy and the Umma: An Uneasy Coexistence Chapter 4. Another Kind of Umma: The Origin of the Islamic Umma Chapter 5. The Mission of the Virtuous Umma: Ethnic Accommodation Within Islam Chapter 6. Between City and Empire: The Political Significance of the Umma Chapter 7. The Umma Among the Ignorant Associations: Nationalism and the Threat of War Conclusion. The Intermediate Association Notes Works Cited Index of Proper Names

Özet
Writing in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Baghdad, Alfarabi (870-950) is unique in the history of premodern political philosophy for his extensive discussion of the nation, or Umma in Arabic. The term Umma may be traced back to the Qur'an and signifies, then and now, both the Islamic religious community as a whole and the various ethnic nations of which that community is composed, such as the Turks, Persians, and Arabs. Examining Alfarabi's political writings as well as parts of his logical commentaries, his book on music, and other treatises, Alexander Orwin contends that the connections and tensions between ethnic and religious Ummas explored by Alfarabi in his time persist today in the ongoing political and cultural disputes among the various nationalities within Islam. According to Orwin, Alfarabi strove to recast the Islamic Umma as a community in both a religious and cultural sense, encompassing art and poetry as well as law and piety. By proposing to acknowledge and accommodate diverse Ummas rather than ignoring or suppressing them, Alfarabi anticipated the contemporary concept of "Islamic civilization, " which emphasizes culture at least as much as religion. Enlisting language experts, jurists, theologians, artists, and rulers in his philosophic enterprise, Alfarabi argued for a new Umma that would be less rigid and more creative than the Muslim community as it has often been understood, and therefore less inclined to force disparate ethnic and religious communities into a single mold.

Konu Ek Girişi
Fārābī-Political and social views.

Konu Başlığı
Ummah (Islam).
 
Ummah (İslam).
 
Islam and state.
 
İslam ve devlet.
 
Ethnicity -- Political aspects.
 
Etnik yapı -- Siyasi etkiler.
 
Islamic philosophy.
 
İslami felsefe.
 
Philosophy, Medieval.
 
Felsefe. ortaçağ.


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