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ajiss-1757	Quadri, Junaid	The Crisis of Muslim History: Religion and Politics in Early Islam by Mahmoud M. Ayoub (Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 2003. 179 pages.)	2004.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1097	33	44	Similarly, Abu Bakr’s egalitarian dis- tribution of wealth (p. 28) and `Umar’s principled refusal to designate his son as successor (pp. 87-88) are noticed by the reader to be in stark contrast with `Uthman’s preferential treatment of his Umayyad kinsmen (p. 54), a development that Ayoub considers an example of the evolving emphasis on the “power, rather than the moral persuasion, of the caliph” (p. 54). Ayoub envisions his work as filling a void found in most general intro- ductions to Islam, which for all their other merits, often fail to provide a clear account of this formative period of Islamic history.	cache/ajiss-1757.pdf	txt/ajiss-1757.txt