God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam

Name: God's Caliph
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521321853
Price: 6300 KES
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ISBN: 9780521321853

by Martin Hinds , Patricia Crone

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Format Hardback

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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