God's Rule - Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought

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Review This rich and wide-ranging book... is stimulating and provocative... [Crone's] lucid style aims to make a complex, ostensibly alien, tradition intelligible to the general reader as well as to the Islamic specialist. (Times Literary Supplement)The book is a masterpiece on the history of the tension existing between religion and politics. (Peter von Sivers Middle East Journal)The author, a distinguished Islamic scholar, cuts through a welter of misconceptions. (Robert Lebling Saudi Aramco World)Patricia Crone gracefully covers the first six centuries of Islamic political thought. (Zouhair Ghazzal Historian)Students today... will benefit greatly from this welcome study of early Islamic political thought. (Ronald J. Stansbury Christian Scolar's Review) Read more About the Author Patricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is author of several books including Pre-industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-modern World; Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law; Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam; and Slaves on Horses: the Evolution of Islamic Polity. Read more