Excellence and Precedence : Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership /

Excellence and Precedence : Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership /

This volume focuses on how legitimate leadership came to be defined in the formative period of Islam in terms of two key Qur'anic concepts: moral excellence ( faḍl/faḍīla ) and precedence ( sābiqa ). These two concepts undergirded a specific discourse on leadership which developed in the first...

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Main Author: Afsaruddin, Asma (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Islamic History and Civilization ; 36.

Subjects:

Caliphate > History.
Imamate > History.
Islam and politics > Arabian Peninsula > History.
Leadership > Religious aspects > Islam.
Legitimacy of governments > Arabian Peninsula > History.
Polity (Religion)

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Call Number:  BP166.9

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