God's Caliph
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God's Caliph
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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 sou
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Book about early Islam by Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds
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2023-02-26T10:31:41Z
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