God's Caliph - Brossura

Crone/Hinds

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521541115 ISBN 13: 9780521541114

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

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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Descrizione del libro

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.

Contenuti

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521541115
• ISBN 13: 9780521541114
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 164
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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