Sainthood and authority in early Islam : how the awliyāʼ of God inherited the Sunnī caliphate /

In Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam Aiyub Palmer recasts wilāya in terms of Islamic authority and traces its development in both political and religious spheres up through the 3rd and 4th Islamic centuries. This book pivots around the ideas of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, the first Muslim theologian...

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Main Author: Palmer, Aiyub (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft; volume202.

Subjects:

Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, > active 898.

Muslim saints.

Authority > Religious aspects > Islam > History of doctrines.

Islam > Theology.