God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
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God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
GodsCaliph.jpg
Authors Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds
Language English
Subject Caliphate
Genre Non-fiction
Published 1986,
Publisher Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0521541115
God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam is a book co-authored by Middle East Scholars and historiographers of early Islam Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds.
The book examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi`ism, religious authority was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism.
Crone and Hinds argue that originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; and that such ideas persisted during the Umayyad Caliphate.[1] To Crone and Hinds, the Sunni pattern represents the outcome of a conflict between the caliphs and early scholars who, as spokesmen of the community, assumed religious leadership for themselves. Many Islamicists have assumed the Shi`i 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
The title khalifat Allah
The Umayyad conception of the caliphate
Caliphal law
From caliphal to Prophetic sunna
Epilogue; Appendices; Index.
References
Islam portal
Crone, Patricia; Hinds, Martin (2003). God's Caliph religious authority in the first centuries of Islam (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge university press. pp. 27–32. ISBN 0521541115.
Patricia Crone and Martin Hind's book is a good one to look at for the history of the term 'Caliph': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Caliph_:_Religious_Authority_in_the_First_Centuries_of_Islam
God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
GodsCaliph.jpg
Authors Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds
Language English
Subject Caliphate
Genre Non-fiction
Published 1986,
Publisher Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0521541115
God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam is a book co-authored by Middle East Scholars and historiographers of early Islam Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds.
The book examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi`ism, religious authority was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism.
Crone and Hinds argue that originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; and that such ideas persisted during the Umayyad Caliphate.[1] To Crone and Hinds, the Sunni pattern represents the outcome of a conflict between the caliphs and early scholars who, as spokesmen of the community, assumed religious leadership for themselves. Many Islamicists have assumed the Shi`i 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
The title khalifat Allah
The Umayyad conception of the caliphate
Caliphal law
From caliphal to Prophetic sunna
Epilogue; Appendices; Index.
References
Islam portal
Crone, Patricia; Hinds, Martin (2003). God's Caliph religious authority in the first centuries of Islam (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge university press. pp. 27–32. ISBN 0521541115.