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From Kavad to Al-Ghazali: Religion, Law and Political Thought in the Near East, c.600-c.1100 (Variorum Collected Studies Series)
From Kavad to AlGhazali Religion Law and Political Thought in the Near East c600c1100 - Variorum Collected Studies Series Author:Patricia Crone 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 lconoclasm in Byzantium. The second group of studies looks at prob... more »lems 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.« less