God's Caliph : religious authority in the first centuries of Islam / Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds.
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TextSeries: University of Cambridge oriental publicationsPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. Description: 1 volumeContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521541115; 9780521541114Subject(s): Caliphate | Caliphs | Califat | Califes | 15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general | Caliphate | Caliphs | Kalifaten | Kaliefen | Islam | Wereldlijke macht | Gezag | Caliphate | Islam and state | Islamic Empire -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 297.61 | 297.65 LOC classification: BP166.9 | .C76 2003xOther classification: 15.50 Summary: 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. (Publisher).
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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. (Publisher).