Thesis Summary
What followed the Prophet’s death is read as a political struggle over power and kingship, not over the message itself. That struggle was then clothed in religious garb through the mobilization of the concepts of obedience, kinship, and inheritance to закреп? No, translate. to consolidate legitimacy.
Foundational Atoms
- Clothing political conflict in religious garb
- The Umayyads used obedience to those in authority
- The Abbasids relied on kinship and inheritance
Place of Support within the Book
This understanding appears at the beginning of the book, in his discussion of what happened after the Prophet’s death and the search for a cover of legitimacy.
Limits of the Reading
This reading describes the nature of the conflict and the means by which it was made religious; it does not go beyond the atoms to other generalizations.