#caliphate

▤ Reading group: al-Mawardi’s Ordinances of Government, on the conditions of legitimate rule

Al-Mawardi (972–1058) was a Shafi'i jurist and judge in Baghdad at a strange moment: the Abbasid caliph was the recognised head of the community, while real military power in the city belonged for most of his life to the Buyid emirs. His…