Description from the publisher: Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan is a crucial figure for the history of Islam and one who has either been ignored because of the lack of information on this period of history, vilified for political reasons by the Shi'ites, or transformed into a completely secular ruler by certain Western orientalists. When Mu'awiya became the caliph in 41/661, he put an end to a period of destructive civil war and initiated the Umayyad dynasty which lasted for roughly 90 years until it was overthrown by the Abbasids. Indeed, it is hard to imagine how the crisis would have been resolved without his success in drawing the Muslim community together again. In Mu'awiya, we have the master politician and diplomat who set about developing a form of governance in which Islam could express itself in the wider social and economic circumstances in which it found itself as a result of the success of the early conquests. The Umayyads reprsent the fusion of Islam with Arab democratic individualism and the Byzantime legacy

Mu'awiya - Restorer of the Muslim Faith by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (2002-05-03)

Bewley, Aisha Abdurrahman

Biographies & Memoirs

Dar Al Taqwa Ltd.

This deeply researched and copiously referenced work on the vital subject of the rise of the modern state and its paradoxical transformation via 'democracy' into an increasingly totalitarian structure working at the behest of an oligarchy will be of great interest and use to the rising numbers of people who are rightly concerned at this alarming development. However, the author takes the work much further with the most forthright exposition of the Islamic paradigm, something that is not only vitally different from the 'state' and its illegitimate offspring 'the islamic state' but diametrically opposed to it and, with its stringent prohibition of usury, fatal to oligarchic rule. Aisha Bewley is the translator of a large number of classical works of Islam and Sufism, often in collaboration with Abdalhaqq Bewley, notably The Noble Qur'an - a New Rendering of Its Meanings in English; Muhammad, Messenger of Allah - the translation of Q&#257;&#7693;&#299; 'Iy&#257;&#7693;'s ash-Shif&#257;'; the Muwa&#7789;&#7789;a' of Imam M&#257;lik ibn Anas; and Imam an-Nawaw&#299;'s Riy&#257;&#7693; a&#7779;-&#7778;&#257;li&#7717;&#299;n.

Democratic Tyranny and the Islamic Paradigm

History

World

Diwan Press

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