Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


Salah Echallaoui: resources and limits of a religious manager

In the period between 2016 and 2018, Salah Echallaoui held the position of president of the EMB. Let us take a closer look at his authorisation path. Echallaoui was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1962. He arrived in Belgium in 1985 as a student to study agronomy at the Gembloux Agro-Bio faculty. He then moved to Huy, in Wallonia.1 He was a teacher of Muslim religion in Belgium, then an inspector of Islamic religion, one of only four people to have held this position so far. He is also President of the association Rassemblement des Musulmans de Belgique, a representative body of Moroccan Islam in Belgium, and of AFOR (the Academy for Training and Research in Islamic Studies), which officially provides theological training for imams in Belgium through its Averroès Institute.

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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