Description: Further DetailsTitle: God's CaliphCondition: NewSubtitle: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of IslamEAN: 9780521541114ISBN: 9780521541114Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/18/2003Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 210gAuthor: Patricia Crone, Martin HindsGenre: HistoryTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: University of Cambridge Oriental PublicationsRelease Year: 2003 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: God's Caliph
Title: God's Caliph
Subtitle: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
EAN: 9780521541114
ISBN: 9780521541114
Release Date: 09/18/2003
Release Year: 2003
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 164 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Islam / History, Middle East / General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.4 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, History
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds
Series: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
