God’s Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds
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.
Anno:
2003
Casa editrice:
Cambridge University Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
162
ISBN 10:
0521541115
ISBN 13:
9780521541114
Collana:
University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 37
File:
PDF, 6.45 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003
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