Author:
Afsaruddin, Asma, 1958-
Imprint:Oxford : Oneworld, 2008.
Descriptionxx, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Rise of Islam and the life of the prophet Muhammah -- Constitution of Medina -- War and peace -- Treaty of al-Hudaybiyya -- fall of Mecca -- fall of Mecca -- Farewell pilgrimage -- Remembering the prophet, the Beloved of God -- Issue of sucession to the Prophet -- Early tension between kinship and individual moral excellence -- Why did the Prophet not indicate a sucessor? -- Age of the rightly guided Caliphs -- Abu Bakr, th efirst caliph -- 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph -- End of rightly-guided leadership -- Political administration -- Collection of the qur'an -- Toward fragmentation of the community -- Caliphate of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib -- First civil war -- Legacy of the era of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs -- Age of the companions -- Ibn 'Abbas: the sage of the Muslim community -- Ibn Mas'ud: interpreter of the Word of God -- 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr: the beloved of Mohammad -- Umm 'Umara: Valiant defender of the Prophet -- Bilal ibn Rabah: the voice of Islam -- Age the successors -- Historical milieu -- Politics of piety and the second civil war -- Third civil war -- 'Abbasid revolution -- Prominent successors -- The consolidation of Shi'i thought -- Rise of law and jurisprudence among the early Sunnis -- Sucessors to the sucessors I: Administration Leadership and Jihad -- Founding of Bagdad -- Statecraft, administration, and leadership: acquiring a Persian flavor -- Concept of Jihad: Qur'anic antecedents and the classicaljuridical doctrine -- Reading the Qu'ran in context -- Later understandings of jihad -- Negotiating the polyvalance of the temm jihad -- Many paths to maryrdom -- Changes in conceptions of leadership -- Sucessors to sucessors II: humanism, law, and mystical spirituality -- Rise of humanism -- Flourishing of law and jurisprudence -- Rise of tasawwuf (surfism) -- Constructing the pious forbears I: historical memory and the present -- Islamist construction -- Implications and revelance of studying the lives of the first muslims today -- Salaf al-Salih in the Islamist inagination -- Constructing the pious forbears II: Historical memory and the present -- Significance of the Salaf al-Salih for the modernists -- Assessment of Islamist and modernist views -- "Islamic state" -- Pervasiveness of the religious law and its scope -- Status of women -- ature of Jihad.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-238) and index.
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