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ajiss-1804	Stewart, Devin	Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership by Asma Afsaruddin (Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 2002. 322 pages.)	2004.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1105	39	47	The theologian al-Baghdadi defined the Ahl al-Sunnah as “those who showed preference (tafdil) for Abu Bakr, `Umar, and those who were after him, even though they differed with regard to the respective merits of `Ali and `Uthman” (p. 20). It analyzes Bina’ al-Maqalah al-Fatimiyah fi Naqd al-Risalah al- `Uthmaniyah, a seventh-/thirteenth-century polemical Shi`ite work on the imamate, itself a refutation of a third-/ninth-century polemical work.	cache/ajiss-1804.pdf	txt/ajiss-1804.txt