Ep 216: Being Muslim in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Hereditary Caliphs and the Olema
The office of a caliph was then er bafecated, the political part vested in the person who assumed the calipidandit became hereditary. This is something which happened when south arabia came about,. When ibnwaha met with the ibna south, and the sadoke, lets divide this country. Il control the religious part of this. Ul controlled the islamic part of it. You controlled the political part. So it was like a compact. The early evidence of this compact was during the reign of the hereditary caliphs. They were representing the ruler to the people. And because they were now on the payroll of the ruler, so they were not
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