Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


Introduction

The International Union of Muslim Scholars, headquartered in Qatar, is an organisation of Muslim scholars founded in 2004 by Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī (Egypt–Qatar) and led by Aḥmad al-Raysūnī (Morocco) between 2018 and 2022. Despite its significance in the current religious-political discourse and transnational politics in the Muslim world and beyond, this organisation received little attention from scholars, and to date, hardly any research has been dedicated to its discourse and action. I am particularly interested, here, in the way IUMS envisions religious authority and how it displays authority practices both in the religious and political spheres. The fact that IUMS is a collective body of religious scholars makes the study of authority within this organisation a challenging task.

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Tartalomjegyzék


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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