[PDF.53fc] 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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 | #1257673 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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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| what does "the caliphate" mean?|By David Reid Ross|This book has given us the Umayyad definition of "the caliphate". This turns out to be pretty much the same as the early 'Abbasid definition, and it remains the Shi'a definition - "God's viceroy". Tron Honto's review has covered the main points, so I'll just add a few addenda here.

The arguments in this book weren'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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications)   |  Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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