From Kavad to al-Ghazali: Religion, Law and

This volume brings together twelve articles by Patricia Crone dealing with pre-Islamic and Islamic religion, law and political thought. The first section focuses on the centuries before Islam, with studies on Mazdakism in Iran and on Islam as the key factor behind the outbreak of Iconoclasm in Byzantium. The second group of studies looks at problems in legal history, including the codification of the Qur'an, while the third investigates questions of political thought, amongst them a study of early Muslim anarchists, and an examination of the authorship of a work ascribed to al-Ghazali.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

The Non-Islamic Near East

Kavad's heresy and Mazdak's revolt

1

(446)

Zoroastrian communism

447

Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Byzantine iconoclasm

59

(94)

Law

Jahili and Jewish law: the qasama

153

Two legal problems bearing on the early history of the Qur'an

1

(246)

Weber, Islamic law, and the rise of capitalism

247

Political Thought

Shura as an elective institution

3

(56)

`Even an Ethiopian slave': the transformation of a Sunni tradition

59

A statement by the Najdiyya Kharijites on the dispensability of the imamate

55

Ninth-century Muslim anarchists

3

(82)

The Kharijites and the caliphal title

85

(82)

Did al-Ghazali write a mirror for princes? On the authorship of Nasihat al-muluk

167

Index

1

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From Kavad to al-Ghazali: Religion, Law and Political Thought in the Near East, c.600ûc.1100

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