Enacting Justice, Ensuring Salvation: The Trope of the ‘Just Ruler’ in Some Medieval Islamic Mirrors.

This article focuses on the difference in the view of popular conceptions of the term freedom as an antonym of oppression in U.S. society with those of Islamic society. For Muslims the antonym of oppression is justice. The article explains that U.S. society's conception of freedom is deeply rooted in the French Enlightenment's political, intellectual and cultural genealogies. The difference between U.S. and Islamic conception of such terms as freedom and justice is important as language encodes basic cultural assumptions rooted in the collective world view and ethos of those who speak them. The article discusses the number of times words such as justice and oppression are mentioned in the Qurʾān. It presents information on Islamic conceptions of princes in Medieval period.