Islam and the foundations of political power / Ali Abdelraziq ; translated by Maryam Loutfi ; edited by Abdou Filali-Ansary.

London : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.

131 p. ; 21 cm.

"The publication of this essay in Egypt in 1925 took the contemporaries of Ali Abdel Razek by storm. Challenging fundamental ideas about political power, it was the focus of much attention and the seed of a heated debate. It was especially potent as at this time the Muslim world was in great turmoil over the questiion of the abolition of the caliphate by Mustapha Kemal Ataturk in Turkey. The essay gave rise to a series of "refutations" and unleashed the Arab world's first great public debate with polemics supporting or refuting Ali Abdel Razek's ideas published all over the press. Eventually he was tried by the al-Azhar court, denounced, stripped of his title of 'alim and barred from future employment in education and the judiciary."--jacket.

English

September 17, 2012

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-122) and index.