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The rightly-guided caliphs: the range of views preserved in Hadith
- Abstract:
- Sunni hadith literature of the ninth century preserves numerous different opinions as to which caliphs were righteously guiding and guided. There is support for a theory of just two, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, for these two plus 'Uthman, for these three plus 'Ali, with variants that give only half-honours to 'Uthman or 'Ali. It is hard only to find hadith in these collections preferring 'Ali to 'Uthman, although some prominent Sunni traditionists were quoted as upholding such a preference. The suggestion seems to be that some disagreement was legitimate and should not occasion fighting.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Host title:
- Political Quietism in Islam: Sunni and Shi’i Practice and Thought
- Chapter number:
- 3
- Series:
- King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies Series
- Publication date:
- 2019-12-26
- Edition:
- 1
- ISBN:
- 9781838602192
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English
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- King Faisal Center for Research in Islamic Studies
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the paper. The final version is available from Bloomsbury Publishing at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/political-quietism-in-islam-9781838602192/
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