Excellence and Precedence : Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership /
Afsaruddin, Asma
Excellence and Precedence : Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership / Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership Asma Afsaruddin. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Islamic History and Civilization ; 36 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. Islamic History and Civilization ; 36. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 century of Islam. This discourse is reconstructed through careful scrutiny of the manāqib literature in particular, which contains detailed accounts of the excellences attributed to the Rāshidūn caliphs. This book stresses that all early factions, including the proto-Shī'a, subscribed to the Qur'ānically-mandated vision of a righteous polity guided by its most morally excellent members. Such a conclusion forces us to rethink the nature of leadership in the earliest period and reconsider the criteria invoked to establish its legitimacy.
9789004492196 9789004120433
10.1163/9789004492196 DOI
Caliphate--History.
Imamate--History.
Islam and politics--History.--Arabian Peninsula
Leadership--Religious aspects--Islam.
Legitimacy of governments--History.--Arabian Peninsula
Polity (Religion)
BP166.9
297.6/1
Excellence and Precedence : Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership / Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership Asma Afsaruddin. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Islamic History and Civilization ; 36 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. Islamic History and Civilization ; 36. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 century of Islam. This discourse is reconstructed through careful scrutiny of the manāqib literature in particular, which contains detailed accounts of the excellences attributed to the Rāshidūn caliphs. This book stresses that all early factions, including the proto-Shī'a, subscribed to the Qur'ānically-mandated vision of a righteous polity guided by its most morally excellent members. Such a conclusion forces us to rethink the nature of leadership in the earliest period and reconsider the criteria invoked to establish its legitimacy.
9789004492196 9789004120433
10.1163/9789004492196 DOI
Caliphate--History.
Imamate--History.
Islam and politics--History.--Arabian Peninsula
Leadership--Religious aspects--Islam.
Legitimacy of governments--History.--Arabian Peninsula
Polity (Religion)
BP166.9
297.6/1