Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi by Alexander Orwin

Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi

Alexander Orwin

264 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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'ān and sign...

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