God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
ISBN-10
0521321859
ISBN-13
9780521321853
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 9th, 1986
Print length
155 Pages
Weight
3 grams
Product Classification:
General & world history
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This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam.
This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi''ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; the Sunni pattern represents the outcome of a conflict between the caliph and early scholars who, as spokesmen of the community, assumed religious leadership for themselves. Many Islamicists have assumed the Shi''ite concept of the imamate to be a deviant development. In contrast, this book argues that it is an archaism preserving the concept of religious authority with which all Muslims began.
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