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  • As the “people of the (Prophet's) example and community” (ahl al-sunna wa al-jama’a), Sunni Muslims retrospectively defined political authority—in light of the first civil war and their later collective experience—as whatever form of authority functioned effectively to protect the faith of Islam and the Muslim community.

    644-56 2001

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