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Author: Martin Hinds
Page Count: 164 pages
Published Date: 18 Sep 2003
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780521541114
File size: 26 Mb
File Name: God's.Caliph.Religious.Authority.in.the.First.Centuries.of.Islam.pdf
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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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God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam by Martin Hinds
Author: Martin Hinds
Page Count: 164 pages
Published Date: 18 Sep 2003
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780521541114
File size: 26 Mb
File Name: God's.Caliph.Religious.Authority.in.the.First.Centuries.of.Islam.pdf
Download Link: God's Caliph Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
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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.
Read online God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam Buy God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam Download and read God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam