Knowing that religious authority in Islam is relative to its community base, hence its pluricentrality, recent (intra-national) tensions between “Muslim communities” in Europe: Turks vs. Kurds, Moroccans vs. Algerians, Sunni Iraqis vs. Shīʿī Iraqis, etc. have generally limited the influence of religious authority figures outside their communities. Massive Syrian immigration to Germany and Sweden, for example, has strengthened the “Arab camp” in the face of Turkish and Sunni domination (especially benefiting the Muslim Brotherhood) in the face of Shīʿī competition, which is quite visible in Sweden in particular. These changes in the ethnic-religious configuration of the communities have implications for the emergence of Syrian religious authority figures in Europe. This is the case of the already very controversial Syrian Islamic Council created in Istanbul in 2014, formed by Syrian Sunni theologians exiled abroad, which intends to represent Syrians in the diaspora. The Syrian Islamic Council also claims to be a “unified moderate Islamic legal reference for the Syrian people, which preserves their identity, freedom and independence”;1 this Council became known especially in 2018 by the fatwa that prohibits young Syrians from marrying non-Muslim women in Europe.2