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Religion and Politics under the Early âAbbÄsids
The Emergence of the Proto-Sunnī Elite
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 16
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The main concern of this book is the religious policies of the early âAbbÄsid caliphs. It focuses on the religious trends which went into the making of SunnÄ« Islam, and traces the emergence of the nascent SunnÄ« elite in relation to the âAbbÄsids.
Various aspects of the caliphs' evolving relationship with the religious scholars are studied and the nature of caliphal patronage and its impact on the scholars, and ultimately on the evolution of early Sunnism, is explored. What emerges is a picture of close collaboration between the caliphs and the âulamaâ, with the caliphs playing an active and multifaceted role in religious life. This book challenges the prevailing interpretations of the separation of religion and politics in early Islam, and offers new insights into the social and religious history of Islam's formative centuries.
Various aspects of the caliphs' evolving relationship with the religious scholars are studied and the nature of caliphal patronage and its impact on the scholars, and ultimately on the evolution of early Sunnism, is explored. What emerges is a picture of close collaboration between the caliphs and the âulamaâ, with the caliphs playing an active and multifaceted role in religious life. This book challenges the prevailing interpretations of the separation of religion and politics in early Islam, and offers new insights into the social and religious history of Islam's formative centuries.
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Ph.D. (1994), McGill University, Montreal, is Lecturer in History at the Qaâid-i Aâzam University, Islamabad. He has published several articles on early Islamic history and historiography. At present, he is engaged in completing a book on The Madrasas of Pakistan: Traditional Education and the Roots of Islamic Radicalism.
'...a significant contribution to the field of 'ulama' studiesâ¦'
Tayeb El-Hibri, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2000.
Tayeb El-Hibri, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2000.
All those interested in early Islamic history, historiography, and religious thought, in Late Antiquity and Islam, in religion and politics in Muslim societies.