Martin Hinds

Martin Hinds (born April 10, 1941 in Penarth , Wales , † December 1, 1988 ) was a historian and Islamic scholar for the early days of Islam .

Life

Hinds began studying Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS in London in 1960. He visited Tunisia, Carthage and was a. a. fascinated by the Al-Zaytuna mosque . As the second oldest mosque in Africa, it once housed one of the largest universities in Islam.

research

Together with Patricia Crone he wrote the book God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam . They found that the first caliphs were both secular and religious leaders. It was only later that religious scholars also claimed power for themselves as representatives of the communities for which they stood. In this way the situation in today's Sunni Islam arose without a central religious violence. The Shiite system is therefore not a later deviation, but on the contrary corresponds to the original order of powers in early Islam. Hinds belongs to the revisionist school of Islamic studies .

Works

God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (1986), with Patricia Crone .
The History of al-Tabari Vol. 23: The Zenith of the Marwanid House (1990), as translator.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Edmund Bosworth. Martin Hinds 1941-1988 . " Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) , Vol. 16, No. 1. (1989), pp. 118-120.

personal data
SURNAME	Hinds, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British historian and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Penarth , Wales
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1988

[Bosworth1989-1] Edmund Bosworth. Martin Hinds 1941-1988 . " Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) , Vol. 16, No. 1. (1989), pp. 118-120.