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September 14, 2017
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Orient-Institut Beirut, « Research Project: SCRIPT // Source Companion for Research on Islamic Political Thought », Mish ma32ool, ID : 10670/1.w6uqez
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As a tool for understanding how the heritage of political thought in the Middle East developed during its intellectually most productive periods, SCRIPT will offer access to a vast and varied literature, in Arabic and Persian, which flourished in the Islamic world from Andalusia to India from the 12th to the 16th centuries. Addressing local sovereign rulers or referring to local sovereign rule, this literature conceptualises legitimate rule and discusses the structure and ideal organisation o...