The Abbaside Caliph al-Qaim appointed him as the Chief justice (Qazi-ul-Qazat) of his Government and he refused the offer saying that there were far abler people who deserve the title much more than himself. Who was that saintly philosopher?

Related Mcqs:

1. “Really I think that the poorest he that is in England bath a life, as the greatest he, and therefore truly, sir, I think it is clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under the government, and I do think that the poorest ram in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to the Government that he bath not had a voice to put himself under”. The statement argues for

   A. Rule according to the consent of the governed
   B. Rule of the poor
   C. Expropriation of the rich
   D. Distribution of wealth equally to all

2. Rousseau had a number of detractors among whom Rousseau himself should the included. What was the title of his seemingly candid autobiography?

   A. My Life and Times
   B. The Triumph of Reason
   C. If You’re Paranoid, you only have to be right once
   D. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques rousseau

3. Who said that in every age God the Almighty selects some one from among men and gives over to him the charge of the well-being of the world and the comfort and tranquility of the human race after duly furnishing him with the act of the Government:

   A. Al-Farabi
   B. Ibn-e-Khaldun
   C. Al-Ghazali
   D. Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi

4. Adab al Qazi was written by:___________?

   A. Al Mawardi
   B. Al Farabi
   C. Al Tusi
   D. Iqbal

5. Who defined democracy as “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

   A. Woodrow
   B. Abraham Lincoln
   C. Laski
   D. Gandhi

6. Who said that democracy is the Government of the people for the people and by the people?

   A. Lincoln
   B. Bryce
   C. Dicey
   D. Herodotus

7. Who defined democracy as “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

   A. Woodrow Wilson
   B. Lord Bryce
   C. Abraham Lincoln
   D. Laski

8. Who defined democracy saying that ‘democracy is a form of Government in which will of the majority of the qualified persons rules’?

   A. Dicey
   B. Bryce
   C. Leacock
   D. Woodrow Wilson
   E. Lincoln

9. In order to determine the proper role of government in a society it is useful to distinguish between “the part of a person’s life which concerns only himself and that which concerns others” according to: _________?

   A. J.S. Mill
   B. Locke
   C. Godwin
   D. Bentham

10. Who said “Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek in general, to be himself of his best”?

    A. Hobbes
    B. Laski
    C. Aristotle
    D. Rousseau