Abstract

The present article interrogates the way in which Muslim thinkers of the classical period produced a political science that sought to be a practical art, with a teleological aim: happiness. Through the reflections of al-Farabi, Miskawayh, and the pseudo-al-‘Āmiri, we will show how a new political thought arose, taking roots in different fields: biology, noetics, and ethics. Since the human being is principally perceived by these thinkers as a composition of body and mind, the civil association seems to them a necessary condition for the achievement of happiness by man. This happiness is no longer only the ultimate one promised in the afterlife but a worldly happiness, hic et nunc.

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