political philosphy of muslims & western

[Unfathomable]

hello,
anyone can provide some help regardin muslim & western political thoughts in form ov sme notes or se easy reference books?

it has become uphill task formr to understand these topics coz ov no background..

[jalbani_kh]

Dear follow the link:

http://www.cssforum.com.pk/css-optio...nce-books.html

[Unfathomable]

thnx for suggesting links.
got idea that we can also go for selective study for this part.
is this preferrable?

is exam cram for polscience will be sufficient?

[Mumtaz Hayat Maneka]

Originally Posted by Unfathomable

thnx for suggesting links.
got idea that we can also go for selective study for this part.
is this preferrable?

is exam cram for polscience will be sufficient?

yes, one can always go for selective study. The formula is easy. Scroll through last 10 years papers and you will know which questions are important and which area's in particular are more important than the others.Make a list and start preparing. I'll give you an example. If you go through last 10 years papers of Political Science you'll notice that questions regarding Plato have appeared 8 times. So 8/10, i think it's a safe bet to prepare Plato .


Disclaimer: Selective study is always risky, sometimes it pays off and some times it lands you in trouble and trouble is the last thing one wants in a competitive exam .

[floydian]

Originally Posted by Unfathomable

hello,
anyone can provide some help regardin muslim & western political thoughts in form ov sme notes or se easy reference books?

it has become uphill task formr to understand these topics coz ov no background..

I won't recommend the overrated Judd Harmon's book. Go for question-answer format books because they are always more useful and easy to understand.

If you are planning to appear in 2010 exams then following are very important:

1. Plato
2. Aristotle (not that important)
3. Hobbes
4. Lock
5. Rousseau
7. Machiavelli
6. Marx

Muslim political thought

1. Farabi
2. Iqbal

Don't read too much about them. Like Mr. MMM said, go through past papers and highlight the topics relevant to the above philosophers. Best luck.

regards,
floydian

[jadoon khan]

dear i m very greatfull thanksfull for providing useful books and information abt political science.

[Unfathomable]

M.M.M n floydian,

thnx for the help, infact i already prepared the list of most repeated questions, theory is alwaz been prob,
as itz said:
in theory everythng is practical, but in practical therz no theory.

exam cram series questions, on ths section also gud enuff. can be used for preparaton? how you rate this book?

[Mumtaz Hayat Maneka]

Originally Posted by Unfathomable

M.M.M
exam cram series questions, on ths section also gud enuff. can be used for preparaton? how you rate this book?

I have seen this book Exam Cram for Political science, and seriously i do not think it is up to the mark. It provides you enough to write in the exam and pass but in order to get a good score you'll have to blend it with some other material as well. Secondly i think that the material is the book can only be comprehended easily by those who already have some knowledge of what they are reading, for the one's who are new to Political philosophy it is sometimes confusing.

Regards

[Imadafridi]

Originally Posted by Mumtaz Hayat Maneka

I have seen this book Exam Cram for Political science, and seriously i do not think it is up to the mark. It provides you enough to write in the exam and pass but in order to get a good score you'll have to blend it with some other material as well. Secondly i think that the material is the book can only be comprehended easily by those who already have some knowledge of what they are reading, for the one's who are new to Political philosophy it is sometimes confusing.

Regards

True,exam cam series for Political Science and Constitutional Science isn't upto the mark and Floydian I read Judd Harmon's book for Western political thought I think it isn't that bad.