Methodological Impediments to Innovation on Political Thought of Islam

political thought of sunni sect or political thought of islam? book review: political thought in medieval islam

this paper firstly introduces the structure and the content of 'political thought in medieval islam'. the content has two main parts, covering ten chapters totally. in the main part of the paper some critical notes are mentioned and some ameliorative and constructive suggestions are presented. the major headlines of these critiques are as follows: lacking clear methodology and theoret...

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...

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Political impediments to a tobacco endgame

Any serious consideration of exploring a tobacco endgame in the USA must build upon the enviable track record of reducing tobacco use through a mixture of federal and state policies. This foundation may pose particular challenges in approaching an endgame, including questions of national political feasibility, public support, limitations of sub-federal experimentation and recruitment of future ...

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...