[PDF.87eo] God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications)

God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications)

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 | #325765 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2003-09-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.39 x5.51l,.47 | File type: PDF | 164 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent book|By Glogg Rene|Very interesting and based on the different available information which is sifted according to possible influences of time and ideology. Due to limited information and the establishment of "the true history of Islam" - having only limited similarity with what really happened - Crone is trying to establish the real development.|8 of 8 people found t

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. Ma...

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