L’Autorité religieuse aux premiers siècles de l’islam
Abstracts
The question of religious authority in classical Islam was the centre of a doctrinal construction which attempted to establish the legitimacy of a body of specialists known as the “men of knowledge”. These specialists were the conveyors and commentators of a prophetic tradition which imposed absolute conformity between that which exists – in this world – and divine will in the hereafter. Yet these “men of knowledge” also disguised, in their teachings, another tendency developing in the newly emerged Islam : that of an Islam becoming a real religion of salvation, subject to the inspired authority of a caliph who spoke Truth and Justice for the community of believers. This article attempts to reconstruct the specific phases and implications of this formative confrontation.
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Christian Décobert, « L’Autorité religieuse aux premiers siècles de l’islam », Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 125 | 2004, 23-44.
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Christian Décobert, « L’Autorité religieuse aux premiers siècles de l’islam », Archives de sciences sociales des religions [Online], 125 | janvier - mars 2004, Online since 22 February 2007, connection on 19 April 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/assr/1032 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/assr.1032
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