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This is a detailed yet accessible guide to the way in which religion and politics interacted during the earliest years of Islam. It focuses on the period of the first four caliphs, untangling the crisis of sucession and the subsequent schism between the Sunni and Shi'i movements in Islam, and drawing on a combination of primary documents and scholarship in the field. It includes two appendices featuring original English translations of key source material.
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This new study of the Islamic tradition’s earliest years presents the key events, individuals, and social-political conditions which defined the era of the first Four Caliphs (from the death of the Prophet to that of Ali, thirty years later), and which led to the Sunni/Shi’i schism and the Crisis of Succession.
In an objective and thoroughly researched book representing both Sunni and Shi’i perspectives, Mahmoud M. Ayoub has drawn on a wide range of primary materials from this period, which explain the various sources of the violent struggles and dissension characterizing this time. Covering everything from the first caliphate of Abu Bakr to the Battles of the Camel and Siffin, the result is a key outline of the manner in which religion and politics defined the earliest period of Islamic history, and the profound effect of the Crisis of Succession on Muslim legal and theological debates in the subsequent centuries.
In addition to offering a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, this sensitive study also features two Appendices of original translated materials, including an account of the Four Caliphs in their own words. Combining the scholarly rigor of a monograph with the accessibility of an introductory text, it is essential reading for all students and scholars of Islamic studies and of the formative years of the Muslim tradition.
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In an objective and thoroughly researched book representing both Sunni and Shi’i perspectives, Mahmoud M. Ayoub has drawn on a wide range of primary materials from this period, which explain the various sources of the violent struggles and dissension characterizing this time. Covering everything from the first caliphate of Abu Bakr to the Battles of the Camel and Siffin, the result is a key outline of the manner in which religion and politics defined the earliest period of Islamic history, and the profound effect of the Crisis of Succession on Muslim legal and theological debates in the subsequent centuries.
In addition to offering a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, this sensitive study also features two Appendices of original translated materials, including an account of the Four Caliphs in their own words. Combining the scholarly rigor of a monograph with the accessibility of an introductory text, it is essential reading for all students and scholars of Islamic studies and of the formative years of the Muslim tradition.
Mahmoud M. Ayoub is Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparitive Religion at Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. He has lectured around the world on Islamic history and related topics, and is the author of over ten books and numerous articles and papers.
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- PublisherOneworld Publications
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1851683267
- ISBN 13 9781851683260
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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