TY  - BOOK
AU  - Afsaruddin, Asma
AU  - Afsaruddin,Asma
TI  - The First Muslims:  History and Memory
SN  - 9781851684977
U1  - SS80 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - One World
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; The Rise of Islam and Life of the Prophet Muhammad	i  The Constitution of Medina	4  War and peace	7  The Treaty of al-Hudaybiyya	i o  The fall of Mecca	12  Farewell pilgrimage	13  Remembering the Prophet, the Beloved of God	16   The Issue of Succession to the Prophet	19  Early tension between kinship and individual moral excellence             2 2  Why did the Prophet not indicate a successor?	2 6   The Age of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs	27  Abu Bakr, the first caliph	2 7  `Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph	3o   The End of Rightly-Guided Leadership	47  Political administration	47  The collection of the Qur`an	48  Toward fragmentation of the community	j o  The caliphate of`Ali ibn AbiTahb	51  The first civil war	j 2  The legacy of the era of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs                             54   The Age of the Companions	59  Ibn `Abbas: the sage of the Muslim community	61  Ibn Mas` ud: interpreter of the Word of God	63  ` A` isha bint Abi Bakr: the beloved of Muhammad	6 6  Umm `Umara: valiant defender of the Prophet	70  Bilal ibn Rabah: the voice of Islam	71  Conclusion	7 3  The Age of the Successors	76  The historical milieu	76  The politics of piety and the second civil war	81  The third civil war	8 j  The`Abbasid revolution	87  Prominent successors	90  The consolidation of Shi` i thought	9 j  The rise of law and jurisprudence among the early Sunnis	98   The Successors to the Successors I: Administration  Leadership, and Jihad	106  The founding of Baghdad	i o 6  Statecraft, administration, and leadership: acquiring a  Persian flavor	107  The concept of jihad: Qur`anic antecedents and the classica  juridical doctrine	108  Reading the Qur`an in context	109  Later understandings of jihad	115  Negotiating the poly valence of the term jihad	116  Many paths to martyrdom	12 o  Changes in conceptions of leadership	12 3  The Successors to the Successors II: Humanism, Law,  and Mystical Spirituality	129  The rise of humanism	12 9  The flourishing of law and jurisprudence	i 3 7  The rise of tasawwuf(
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