Now all but forgotten, there exists within medieval Islamic political thought a coherent realist tradition analogous to its Western counterpart.
In The Art of Jihad , Malik Mufti begins by analyzing contemporary debates on jihad designed to highlight the lacuna occupied by realism in other cultures.
He explicates the features of medieval Islamic realism; those it shares with realism everywhere--a focus on power, for example, or the ubiquity of human conf.
State University Of New York Press The art of jihad, paperback/malik mufti
