Authority in Islam by Hamid Dabashi

Author:Hamid Dabashi [Dabashi, Hamid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017-09-08T07:00:00+00:00

Muhammad is but a messenger (the like of whom) have passed away before him. Will it be that, when he dieth or is slain, ye will turn back on your heels? He who turneth back on his heels doth no hurt to Allah, and Allah will reward the thankful.

This episode exemplifies the attitude adopted by the majority of the Muslims, according to which the Prophet had died, Islam was his chief legacy, and life had to go back to a state of “normality.”

This does not imply that other Muslims refused to accept the death of the Prophet. But their attitudes toward his death and its significance were quite different and thus consequential to their view of post-Muhammadan authority.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the pre-Islamic traditional influence on the post-Muhammadan period was the direction of “tradltlonalizatlon,”in the Weberian sense, that Muhammad’s charismatic authority assumed for the Muslim majority. The relationship between these two modes at this crucial period was best formulated by Parsons:

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