Caliphate redefined : the mystical turn in Ottoman political thought / Hüseyin Yılmaz.
The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority. In this book, the author traces how a new conception of the...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018 |
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