Religion and Politics Under the Early 'Abbāsids

The Emergence of the Proto-Sunnī Elite
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10678-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

The main concern of this book is the religious policies of the early ‘Abbasid caliphs. It focuses on the religious trends which went into the making of Sunni Islam, and traces the emergence of the nascent Sunni elite in relation to the ‘Abbasids.
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 ‘ulama’, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Ph.D. (1994), McGill University, Montreal, is Lecturer in History at the Qa’id-i A‘zam 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.