Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


Figures of authority

As figures of authority, the jurists of IUMS are individuals who act on their charisma and function as “mediators” who articulate the collective charisma and authority of the sharia. On the one hand, individuality distinguishes each figure of authority with his own resources, specialisation and particular audience. On the other hand, the scope of their influence is defined by their roles as members of an Islamic scholarly and international institution within social, political and institutional historicity. And so, the figure of authority neither acts independently nor is he a mere agent of an organisation; as put by Peter Becker and Rüdiger von Krosigk “there is an intimate link between political and institutional culture and a specific notion of the self”.1 The three figures of authority that are particularly significant in the discourse and action of IUMS are Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī, Aḥmad al-Raysūnī and ʿAlī al-Qaradāghī.

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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