Hüseyin Yılmaz, Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought

The mystical body of society: religion and association in nineteenth-century French political thought.

‘‘It is not the case,’’ Alasdair MacIntyre once wrote, ‘‘that men first stopped believing in God and in the authority of the Church, and then subsequently started behaving differently. It seems clear that men first of all lost any overall social agreement as to the right ways to live together, and so ceased to be able to make sense of any claims to moral authority.’’1 Religious faith and moral ...

The Concept of “Political Legitimacy” in Shia Political Thought (With Focus on Imam Khomeini’s Political Thought)

Legitimacy is always considered an important concept among basic topics of political science; since it has been already posed as the prerequisite of acceptability for exercising of power in the societies through history. Accordingly, all of the political philosophies made efforts to establish an intellectual apparatus that enforces the fundamentals of governance, dealt to some extent with the i...

Virtue in Machiavelli’s Political Thought

The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...

mystical aspects in political thought of seyyed jaafar kashfi

in terms of time, iranian mystic seyyed jaafar kashfi belongs to the era that is known as the end of the political thought era, from the perspective of decline theory. however, he is one of the great thinkers of the qajar era who in his two books entitled “tohfat al-muluk” and “mizan al-muluk” presented his political thought on the basis of mystical way. the main question in this research is wh...

Genealogy or Asabiyya? Ibn Khaldun between Arab Nationalism and the Ottoman Caliphate