God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of IslamThis 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The title khalífat Allāh | 4 |
The Umayyad conception of the caliphate | 24 |
Caliphal law | 43 |
From caliphal to Prophetic sunna | 58 |
The Umayyads | 59 |
The Abbāsids | 80 |
Epilogue | 97 |
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God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam Patricia Crone,Martin Hinds No preview available - 1986 |
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Abbasids Abd al-Malik Abd al-Razzaq Abdallah Abū Abu Bakr according Aghānī Aḥmad al-Farazdaq al-Hajjāj al-imām al-Jawzī al-Ma'mun al-Mahdī al-Riḍā al-Walid al-Walid II al-Walid's letter alā Alī Allāh Allāh wa-sunnat nabiyyihi amīr al-mu'minīn appendix arḍihi attested Beirut Cairo caliphal title concept deputy Dīwān Farazdaq God's governor Ḥadīth Hārūn Hisham ibid Ibn Abd al-Ḥakam Ibn al-Muqaffa Ibn Asākir Ibn Qutayba Ibn Sa'd imam Imāma Imāmīs Islam işma Ismā'īlīs Jarir khalifat Allah khalifat rasul Allah Khārijite khulafā Kulaynī Leiden llāh mahdi Marwan Medina messenger Mu'awiya Muḥammad Murūj Muṣannaf Muslim obedience poetry poets political Prophetic sunna qāḍī Qalqashandi Quḍāh Qur'an Qur'ānic Rasa'il rasul Allāh religion rulers Şafwat Schacht scholars Sharḥ Shi'ite shūrā Sibt similarly Sīra Şubḥ successor Sulayman sunan sunna Ta'rikh Tabaqāt Tahdhīb title khalifat told tradition Tyan ulama Umar Umar II Umayyad caliphs Umayyad period Uthman Waki Yazid Yazid III