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By Patricia Crone
This can be a arguable learn of the origins of Islamic civilisation, first released in 1977. by means of interpreting non-Muslim assets, the authors indicate the intimate hyperlink among the Jewish faith and the earliest types of Islam. As a major, scholarly try to open up a brand new, exploratory direction of Islamic background, the e-book has already engendered a lot debate. This paperback version will make the authors' conclusions generally available to academics and scholars of heart jap and Islamic reports.
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7 J 2) indicate Karaism as a movement to have been in the making in his lifetime. On the Islamic side, is one to read the position of I;>irar into such fragmentary data as we have for the views of 'Amr b. 'Ubayd (d. 76I)? But there is also evidence of a naive fundamentalism (one without explicit rejection of oral tradition) at a very early stage in the evolution of Islam (below, p. I68, n. zo); the impression that this antedates the Koran itself is reinforced by the dispute over the penalty for adultery (below, p.
In the Samaritan case and 'Ali in the Islamic; 57 and the parallelism becomes explicit in the Shi 'ite traditions which support the claims of 'Ali to the imamate by asserting and developing the proposition that 'Ali is to Muhammad as Aaron to Moses. 58 Thirdly, it is in some remarks on the Shi 'ism of the second civil war in what appears to be a near-contemporary Arabic text that the clearest characterisation of priestly authority in Islam is to be found, accompanied by the striking designation of the priests as /cabins.
Van Ess, 'Untersuchungen', p. v. ). The Judaic usage, like the early Islamic, is not pejorative. Secondly, early Islamic law has a high regard for the authority of custom or practice: 'a11111l or sunna (Schacht, Origins, pp. sSff, and cf. van Ess, 'Untersuchungen', p. 42~ the latter not yet identified as that of the Prophet. fel halal(ha with Schacht, Origins, pp. 63 (where Ibn Qasim lacks only the term halal(ha le-t~~~~'ase), So). The impact of the eighth-century controversy on these categories is visible on both sides, but is predictably more drastic in the Islamic case.