Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


Fatwa and legislation

One of the main practices of authority carried out by IUMS is the issuing of fatwas. The Jurisprudence and Fatwa Committee at IUMS is led by Nūr al-Dīn al-Khādimī, who was a minister of religious affairs in Tunisia (2011–2014), a specialist of Mālikī legal theory and an outspoken Islamist thinker involved in several political polemics.1 The other members of the Committee are ʿIkrima Ṣabrī (Palestine), the famous imam of al-Aqsa mosque, often arrested by the Israeli Government, Sālim al-Shaykhī (Libya – the UK) and Aḥmad Jāballāh (Tunisia–France) who both have strong connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and Faḍl Murād (Yemen), who is involved in International Islamic economy. The muftis of IUMS are particularly skilled in the conjoining of knowledge of fiqh with political action at national and international levels: They were selected for being knowledgeable in Islamic legal matters and for their courageous risk taking, as they were involved in political action. Thus, they owe their legitimacy (for the public of IUMS) for being dissidents against ruling regimes in their countries, in addition to having proper fiqh knowledge.

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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