İçindekiler:
  • I. The beginnings
  • The origins of government
  • The first civil war and sect formation
  • The Umayyads
  • II. The waning of the tribal tradition, c. 700-900
  • Introduction
  • The Kharijites
  • The Mu'tazilites
  • The Shi'tes of the Umayyad period
  • The 'Abbasids and Shi'ism
  • The Zaydis
  • The Imamis
  • The Hadith party
  • III. Coping with a fragmented world
  • Introduction
  • The Persian tradition and advice literature
  • The Greek tradition and "Political science"
  • The Ismailis
  • The Sunnis
  • IV. Government and society
  • The nature of government
  • The functions of government
  • Visions of freedom
  • The social order
  • Muslims and non-Muslims
  • Epilogue: religion, government, and society revisited