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Jonathan Lyons shows just how much "Western" ideas owe to the Golden Age of Arab civilization

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Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) orations Subsequent chapters focus on specificThis original study demonstrates how Ibn Taymiyyas influence shed new light on the entire trajectory of Islamic political thought. Although he did not reject the Caliphate ideal, as is commonly believed, he nevertheless radically redefined it by turning it into a rational political institution intended to serve the community (umma). Through creative reinterpretation, he deployed the Qur'anic concept of fitra (divinely endowed human nature) to center