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Siyāset-nāme of Niẓām al-Mulk and Naṣīḥāt al-mulūk of Al-Ġazālī: two examples of “mirror for princes”
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1997) Pachniak, Katarzyna; Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
The 8th century saw the emergence of a new literary genre: handbooks for princes and governors. By that time the Arab empire had expanded over a vast territory. A competent administration was necessary to govern the state. As Arabs themselves had not had any tradition of administration, a great number of functionaries were of Persian origin. They not only took over high offices in the Arab empire, but also instructed the new personnel. They cre- ated a new variety of the Arabic language - the language of administration. Persians transferred onto the Arabic ground Persian customs and traditions of administration from the Sasanian empire, including the Muslim tradition. They also transferred to the Arab ground the guides, very popular in Iran, containing advice for rulers on how to reign.
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Al-Munqiḏ min aḍ-ḍalāl
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2000) Pachniak, Katarzyna; Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī (1058-1111) nazywany jest ḥuǧǧat al-islām (dowód, argument islamu) i powszechnie uważany za jednego z najwybitniejszych uczonych muzułmańskich. Do dziś imponuje wszechstronnością. W swych dziełach zajmował się problemami teologicznymi, filozoficznymi, teorią polityki, etyką i mistycyzmem. Al-Munqiḏ min aḍ-ḍalāl to dzieło powstałe najprawdopodobniej między 1105 a 1107 rokiem, czyli w chwili powrotu do czynnego życia naukowego.
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Wczesna kosmologia ismā‘īlicka
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2001) Pachniak, Katarzyna; Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
Tłumaczenie tekstu Abū ‘Īsy al-Muršida (X w.); źródło: S.M. Stern, The Earliest Doctrines of Ismā‘īlism, E.J.Brill, Leiden 1983, s. 3-29.
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Al-Ǧuwaynī’s theory of the imamate in his treatise Ġiyāṯ al-umam
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2007) Pachniak, Katarzyna; Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
By the eleventh century the community founded in the seventh century by the Prophet Muḥammad had split into several religious groups. The umma as a single, unified community, had become a political fiction. The Abbasid caliphate had lost its power, and the caliphs became mere puppets in the hands of the Saljuq sultans and were not in control of their dominions any more. Political theory, in Islam being part of theological works, made an effort to preserve an image of a single polity in the face of a double danger: a growing power of the Isma‘ili Fatimids in Egypt and internal disturbances. One of the most distinguished jurists and ʿulamāʾ of that era, and probably one of the most important figures in the development of political and juristic theory, was Al-Māwardī (d. 1058 in Baghdad). His most important work, and perhaps one of the most influential in mediaeval Islamic political theory, was Al-Aḥkām al-sulṭāniyya.