Obeying the (unjust) ruler: tracing a political ideology in the hadith corpus
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Goerke, Andreas
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Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko
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Asi, Marjan
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2023-01-13T16:48:23Z
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2023-01-13T16:48:23Z
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2023-01-13
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Within Sunni political discourse is the question of one’s relationship with the state and more
specifically, the ruler. The majority opinion upholds a quietism requiring obedience to the
ruler, even if he is unjust. This study traces the origins of this political quietism as well as its
converse (political activism) through an analysis of Prophetic narrations (hadiths) espousing
them. Through the relatively recent methodology of isnad-cum-matn which analyses both the
chain of transmission (isnad) and the text of the Prophetic narration (matn), patterns are
found in the spread of these hadiths. Namely, there is a concentration of political hadiths
spreading from Iraq in the early to mid-second century AH. These results contribute to a
better understanding of the political landscape of the early Muslim world, as well as some of
its most prominent figures.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1842/39703
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/2952
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en
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The University of Edinburgh
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Sunni relationship with the State
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political quietism
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Hadiths
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early Islamic history
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Obeying the (unjust) ruler: tracing a political ideology in the hadith corpus
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Thesis or Dissertation
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Doctoral
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PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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