Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


The manager of Islam: the authority of structure and control

As the religious manager is primarily an administrative authority, he or she does not figure in the conventional list of religious authority figures. Yet, the importance of the institutional representation of Islam in Europe as well as in majority Muslim societies makes his influence emerge in a rather visible way. One can observe in Morocco how much the nāẓir (a supervisory function within the Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs), makes and controls the discourses and decisions of mosques, even when they are not run by the state. In Turkey, the Diyanet has controlled and adapted the religious discourse desired by the different Turkish regimes since the 1970s.1

Authority in Contemporary Islam

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó – Ludovika Egyetemi Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 454 960 4

Authority is a key question in Islamic studies and beyond. This book examines the nature, figures, structures and functions of religious authority in contemporary Islamic ethics. It also discusses how Islamic authority and political power compete and/or cooperate in Muslim contexts and Europe. Moreover, it provides a coherent framework to understand authority as a moral foundation in relation to community, power, tradition and subversion. Various cases from Europe and the Muslim world are studied here to showcase the claims and practices of authority in their contexts. Despite its active role and resourcefulness in contemporary Islam, religious authority has to confront many limitations, including the dynamics of secularisation and individualisation. The author is a senior researcher at the Religion and Society Research Institute of the Eötvös József Research Centre at the University of Public Service (Budapest).

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/belhaj-authority-in-contemporary-islam//

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