God's Caliph

Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam

Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2003
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-54111-4 (ISBN)

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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.

1. Introduction; 2. The title khalifat Allah; 3. The Umayyad conception of the caliphate; 4. Caliphal law; 5. From caliphal to Prophetic sunna; 6. Epilogue; Appendices; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.9.2003
Reihe/Serie	University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	210 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	0-521-54111-5 / 0521541115
ISBN-13	978-0-521-54111-4 / 9780521541114
Zustand	Neuware