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A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East : the Circle of Justice From Mesopotamia to Globalization.
From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, ""the Circle of Justice"" as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of power in the Middle East. The Circle of Justice depicts graphically how a government's justice toward the popu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the Circle of Justice
- Mesopotamia: "that the strong might not oppress the weak"
- Persia: "the deeds god likes best are righteousness and justice"
- The Islamic Empire: "no prosperity without justice and good administration"
- Politics in transition: "curb the strong from riding on the weak"
- The Turks and Islamic civilization: "the most penetrating of arrows is the prayer of the oppressed"
- Mongols and Turks: "fierce toward offenders, and in judgements just"
- Early modern empires: "the world is a garden, its wall is the state"
- Modernization and revolution: "no justice without law applied equally to all"
- The Middle East in the twentieth century: "a regime can endure with impiety but not with injustice"
- Conclusion.