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Authority in Islam
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1: Battle of the Old and the Charismatic; 2: Traditional Arab Authority: An Established Order; 3: Muhammad’s Charismatic Authority: Towards an Equivalent Islam Typology; 4: Establishment of Muhammad’s Charismatic Authority: Emergence of a New Order; 5: The Foundations of Sunnite Authority: The Routinization of Charisma; 6: The Foundations of Shi c ite Authority: The Perpetuation of Charisma; 7: The Foundations of Kharijite Authority: The Dissemination of Charisma; 8: The Charismatic Revolution as a Reconstitution of a Moral Demand System and an Originator of New Paradigmatic Patterns of Authority

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Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of, among other works, the acclaimed Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads.

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-In this unprecendented study, Dabashi combines the insights of Weberian sociology with Rieffian psychoanalysis and applies both to the originary period of Islamic history... [S]atisfying book. Recommended for all levels of readers.- --B. B. Lawrence, Choice

"In this unprecendented study, Dabashi combines the insights of Weberian sociology with Rieffian psychoanalysis and applies both to the originary period of Islamic history... [S]atisfying book. Recommended for all levels of readers." --B. B. Lawrence, Choice

"In this unprecendented study, Dabashi combines the insights of Weberian sociology with Rieffian psychoanalysis and applies both to the originary period of Islamic history... [S]atisfying book. Recommended for all levels of readers." --B. B. Lawrence, Choice

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