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 | God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications) (Reprint Edition) by Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds, Crone/Hinds Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-521-54111-5 / 0521541115 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-54111-4 / 9780521541114 This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; t | |