Overview
- Presents the first publication of this text in its entirety in the English language
- Debunks the key foundation of the guardianship of the jurist
- Provides a competing narrative based on Hair Yazdi's theory of joint public ownership in political theory
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations (PPCE, volume 21)
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Wisdom and Governance
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This is a translation of Mehdi Hairi Yazdi’s حکمت و حکومت (Ḥikmat wa Ḥukūmat) which provides a philosophical critique of the theory of the guardianship of the jurist.
This theory is currently the governance theory in Iran and Mehdi Hairi Yazdi’s treatise provides a critique based on both philosophical and traditional arguments. It asks numerous questions, such as: ‘Is the governance of jurists philosophically coherent, rational and efficient?’ and ‘How can Muslim communities have their own forms of governance in such a manner that their faith commitments are met while living in their own time without clashing with universal values of governance?’ and debunks the key foundation of the guardianship of the jurist.
The present translation makes accessible, for the first time, the text of this critique in English, and provides a competing narrative based on his theory of joint public ownership in political theory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
About the Translator
Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies and a lecturer for the Department of Graduate Studies at the Institute. His first monograph, Authority without Territory: The Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate (2014) is a fresh theoretical engagement with contemporary institutions of the Ismaili imamate. He has edited and translated the autobiography of Aga Khan I, with Daniel Beben. The book is now published under the title The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam (2018). His latest book Command and Creation: A Shi‘i Cosmological Treatise (2021) is a Persian edition and English translation of Muhammad al-Shahrastani’s Majlis-i maktūb.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Philosophical Treatise on Muslim Politics
Book Subtitle: Wisdom and Governance
Authors: Mehdi Hairi Yazdi
Translated by: Daryoush Mohammad Poor
Series Title: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96658-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96657-7Published: 17 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96660-7Published: 17 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96658-4Published: 16 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2352-8370
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 201
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Philosophy, general