Discuss the similarities and difference in the way the Old Testament shaped the role of the state in each of the three Jewish writers we’ve read and the way the Qur’an shaped the role of the state in the writings of the four Islamic writers
Discuss the similarities and difference in the way the Old Testament shaped the role of the state in each of the three Jewish writers we’ve read and the way the Qur’an shaped the role of the state in the writings of the four Islamic writers
Discuss the similarities and difference in the way the Old Testament shaped the role of the state in each of the three Jewish writers we’ve read and the way the Qur’an shaped the role of the state in the writings of the four Islamic writers
Order Description
Please don’t use overly complicated phraseology. The sources to include are:
Religious Texts
– The Old Testament
– The Qur’an
Islamic Writers
– Al-Farabi: The Book of Religion; The Political Regime
– Avicenna: On the Divisions of the Rational Sciences; Healing: Metaphysics
– Ibn Bajja: The Governance of the Solitary
– Averroes: The Decisive Treatise
Jewish Writers
– Saadya Gaon – The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs
– Judah Halevi – The Book of Refutation
– Maimonides – The Guide of the Perplexed; eight chapters