Authority: The Central Pillar of Sunni Political Thought
Faradj, Hisseine
When and why should one obey authority? This is a universal question that transcends time and space. This book argues that similar to the centrality of the concept of sovereignty in Western social, legal, and political paradigms, at the core of Sunni legal and political history there is a paradigmatic authority that is necessary in evaluating and understanding Islamic Sunni legal and political history according to its local qualities. This cla...