SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Early Islamic Political Theory Between Legal Discourse and Political Anthropology

SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow Rodrigo Adem presented to a group of eight students and scholars on “Early Islamic Political Theory Between Legal Discourse and Political Anthropology” during his April 26th ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk. Adem’s research not only pushed back against the idea of Sunnis and Shīʿites or caliphs and imams, but also against the very idea of a scholarly class. He challenged these concepts in order to dissect imāma, the idea of authority, and its source. This event was livetweeted.