Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership by Asma Afsaruddin

Brill's Islamic History and Civilization #36

Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership

Asma Afsaruddin

312 pages hardcover 2002

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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 (fad l/fad la) and precedence (s biqa). These two concepts undergirded a specific discours...

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