Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs

by Tayeb El-Hibri

Book Overview

The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account. The story also informs the competing perspectives of Sunni and Shi'i Islam, which read into it the legitimacy of their claims. Yet while descriptive and varied, these approaches have long excluded a third reading, which views the conflict...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231150830
• ISBN13: 9780231150835
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"