TY  - BOOK
AU  - Afsaruddin,Asma
TI  - Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004492196
AV  -  BP166.9 
U1  - 297.6/1 23
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Caliphate
KW  - History
KW  - Imamate
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Arabian Peninsula
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Legitimacy of governments
KW  - Polity (Religion)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004492196
ER  -