Brill
Religion and Politics Under the Early 'Abbāsids: The Emergence of the Proto-Sunnī Elite
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- Muhammad Qasim Zaman
- Brill
- Hardcover
- 9789004106789
- 9.66 X 6.46 X 0.81 inches
- 1.28 pounds
- Political Science > General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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.
Author Bio
Muhammad Qasim Zaman joined the Department in 2006. He has written on the relationship between religious and political institutions in medieval and modern Islam, on social and legal thought in the modern Muslim world, on institutions and traditions of learning in Islam, and on the flow of ideas between South Asia and the Arab Middle East.
He is the author of Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids (1997), The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2002), Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia (2008), Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism (2012), and Islam in Pakistan: A History (2018). With Robert W. Hefner, he is also the co-editor of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (2007); with Roxanne L. Euben, of Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought (2009); and, as associate editor, with Gerhard Bowering et al., of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (2013).
Among his current projects is a book on South Asia and the wider Muslim world in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Source: Princeton University Department of Religion
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