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ISBN/UID: 9780521321853
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 28 November 1986
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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 ...
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ISBN/UID: 9780521321853
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 28 November 1986
Description
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 ...