A history of social justice and political power in the Middle East : the circle of justice from Mesopotamia to globalization / / Linda T. Darling.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 399 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.