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God's Caliph Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
by Crone, Patricia, Hinds, Martin, Faculty of Oriental Studies Staff
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- ISBN-13: 9780521541114
- ISBN: 0521541115
- Edition: 7
- Publication Date: 2003
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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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.Crone, Patricia is the author of 'God's Caliph Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam', published 2003 under ISBN 9780521541114 and ISBN 0521541115.
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