God's Caliph : religious authority in the first centuries of Islam

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God's Caliph : religious authority in the first centuries of Islam

Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds

(University of Cambridge Oriental publications, no. 37)

Cambridge University Press, c2003

  • : pbk

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"First paperback edition 2003"--T.p. verso

Includes index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The title khalifat Allah
  • 3. The Umayyad conception of the caliphate
  • 4. Caliphal law
  • 5. From caliphal to Prophetic sunna
  • 6. Epilogue
  • Appendices
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BA65412288
  • ISBN
    • 0521541115
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    v, 157 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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