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050 0 $aBP166.9$b.C76 1986
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100 1 $aCrone, Patricia,$d1945-
245 10 $aGod's caliph :$breligious authority in the first centuries of Islam /$cPatricia Crone and Martin Hinds.
260 $aCambridge [Cambridgeshire] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1986.
300 $av, 157 p. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aUniversity of Cambridge oriental publications ;$vno. 37
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 140-152) and index.
505 0 $aThe title khalīfat Allāh -- The Umayyad conception of the caliphate -- Caliphal law -- From caliphal to Prohetic sunna : the Ummayads -- From caliphal to Prohetic sunna : The ʻAbbāsids -- On the date and origin of the caliphate -- The letters of al-Walīd II and Yazīd III -- Abū Ḥamza's comments on the caliphs -- Al-Maʼmūn's letter of designation of ʻAlī al-Riḍā as his successor.
520 $a"This new study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; the Sunni pattern represents the outcome of a conflict between the caliph and early scholars who, as spokesmen of the community, assumed religious leadership for themselves. Many Islamicists have assumed the Shi'ite concept of the imamate to be a deviant development. In contrast, this book argues that it is an archaism preserving the concept of religious authority with which all Muslims began."$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/85026992.html.
650 0 $aCaliphate.
650 0 $aIslam and state.
651 0 $aIslamic Empire$xPolitics and government.
700 1 $aHinds, Martin.
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