The Water and the Rose
Al-Mawardi and the Art of Holding Your Ground When the World Is CrackingBy Narin Hikma
Length10h 7m
About this audiobook
What do you do when the world stops making sense, and you still have to show up?
You know the gap between how things should be and how they are. You show up anyway, wondering if sticking to principle makes you naive.
In tenth-century Baghdad, Al-Mawardi rose to become the highest judge of the Abbasid Caliphate, writing the first complete theory of Islamic governance while the caliphs lost real power. He did not walk away. He held his ground for eight decades, building a legacy that outlasted the empire.
The Water and the Rose is a narrative biography about maintaining integrity inside a flawed world.
• Discover why holding standards inside a broken system is true courage
• Understand his doctrine of necessity and political thought
• See how a life of principle is built one unglamorous choice at a time
It is possible to work in a broken world without becoming broken.
Open the first page. He will show you how.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.5 (23)
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length10 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
2Prologue
31. The City Where Roses Grew
42. Water of Roses
53. The Capital at the Center of the World
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64. At the Feet of the Learned
75. A World Coming Apart
86. The First Question of Politics
97. Writing the Unwritable
108. The Doctrine of Necessity
119. How to Live Well
1210. The Architecture of Friendship
1311. The Weight of the Judge’s Robe
1412. The Art of Sitting Across from Power
1513. The Negotiation at Ahwaz
1614. What Makes a Ruler Worthy?
1715. The Voice of the People
1816. Heaven and Earth, Both Real
1917. The Education of the Soul
2018. Old Age in a New World
2119. The Long Life of a Principled Man
2220. The Rose Endures
23Epilogue
2421. Author's Note
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