A Philosophical Treatise on Muslim Politics: Wisdom and Governance

Preface
Translator’s Introduction
Contents
Chapter 1: Prologue: The Main Arguments of Mehdi Hairi Yazdi’s Wisdom and Governance
	1.1 The Priority of Islamic Philosophy over Islamic Jurisprudence
	1.2 Government as the Agency of Joint Private Owners
	1.3 Individualism Versus Collectivism: Criticizing Rousseau
	1.4 Voluntariness of Sharia Versus Coerciveness of the State
	1.5 Hairi’s Meta-Ethics
	1.6 Concluding Remarks: Rethinking General Will
	Bibliography
Part I: Wisdom and Governance
	Chapter 2: Predicative Existence (Hastī) vs. Copulative Existence (Astī)
		2.1 Existentialism and Essentialism
		2.2 Being in Kant’s Philosophy
	Chapter 3: Copulative (Astī) vs. Normative (Bāyistī)
	Chapter 4: Existence (Hastī) and Quiddity (Chīstī)
	Chapter 5: Different Types of Necessity
		5.1 Necessity in Propositions and Statements of Practical Reason
	Chapter 6: Theoretical Reason and Practical Reason
	Chapter 7: Ḥukūmat and a Philological Understanding of Its Quiddity
	Chapter 8: Ḥukūmat in Political Science and Common Politics
	Chapter 9: The Raison d’être of Governance
	Chapter 10: Governance, Politics and Statesmanship
		10.1 Ḥukm, Ḥukūmat and Walayat
	Chapter 11: Empirical Understanding of Governance
	Chapter 12: Analytical Knowledge of Governance and Statesmanship
	Chapter 13: The Fundamental and Main Duties of the Statesman
	Chapter 14: The Structure of Society Based on Private Joint Ownership
	Chapter 15: Natural Ownership Versus Conventional and Legal Ownership
	Chapter 16: Private Exclusive Ownership Versus Private Joint Ownership
	Chapter 17: Welfare or Peaceful Coexistence
	Chapter 18: The Meaning of Society as per Personal Joint Ownership
	Chapter 19: The Meaning of State in the Doctrine of Joint Ownership
	Chapter 20: Governance or Statesmanship
	Chapter 21: Individuality, Autonomy, Freedom and National Sovereignty
	Chapter 22: Comparing Private Joint Ownership and Social Contract
	Chapter 23: The Legislative Will or Rules of Law-Making
		23.1 Existential Will
		23.2 Legislative Will or Rules of Law-Making
	Chapter 24: The Principle of Grace
		24.1 Definition of the Principle of Grace
	Chapter 25: Divine Creative Foreknowledge of the Best System
	Chapter 26: Islamic Society and Democratic Societies
		26.1 Principles of Islamic Sociology
		26.2 The Anthropology of Islam
			26.2.1 Individual Independence
			26.2.2 The Collective Relation of “Class” and Member
			26.2.3 The Relation Between Society and Citizens
			26.2.4 Predestination and Free Will in Decision and Determination
			26.2.5 Political Pluralism
			26.2.6 Impossibility of Religious Legislation in Executive Matters
	Chapter 27: Prophecy, Imamate and Caliphate
	Chapter 28: Guardianship of the Jurist
		28.1 Part I
		28.2 Part II
		28.3 The Concepts of ḥukm, Arbitration and Governance in ḥadīth
		28.4 The Concept of Proof (ḥujjat) and Proofness (ḥujjiyyat) in ḥadīth and fiqh
	Chapter 29: The Unresolvable Mystery of the Islamic Republic and the Guardianship of the Jurist
Glossary
Bibliography
Index