Caliphate redefined the mystical turn in Ottoman political thought
"The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority. In this book, Huseyin Yilmaz traces how a new concept...
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Princeton
Princeton University Press
[2018]
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