Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


Aḥmad al-Raysūnī

Al-Qaraḍāwī’s twofold legitimacy, based on religious knowledge and political action, sets a model to other members of IUMS; these members also possess this double legitimacy although at less prestigious degrees. Aḥmadal-Raysūnī, who replaced al-Qaraḍāwī as president of IUMS in 2018, enjoys considerable influence both in the circles of religious knowledge as well among militant Muslims. Al-Raysūnī was born in 1953 in Northern Morocco. He obtained his diploma in Islamic law at al-Qarawiyyīn University in 1978 and his PhD in Islamic legal theory at Mohammed V University in Morocco in 1992. Between 1986 and 2006, he was Professor at various institutions in Morocco, and especially at Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ḥasaniyya, the most prestigious centre of religious training of ʿulamāʾ in Morocco. In the 1990s and 2000s, he was the most prominent scholar of Islamic legal theory and ethics in North Africa, and the uncontested specialist of Abū Isḥāq al-Shāṭibī’s ethics of Islamic law.1 His legitimacy within the circles of religious knowledge became international when he was appointed as director of the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Legal Rules project by the International Council of Islamic Law in Jedda (a project that ran between 2006 and 2012). Subsequently, he was invited to teach and supervise projects in various countries in the Muslim world. To date, al-Raysūnī has published over 20 books on Islamic legal theory and Islamic ethics, most of which are important contributions to maqāṣid al-sharīʿa (higher objectives of Islamic law) applied to private and public spheres, including politics, as shown by his book Fiqhal-thawra: murājaʿātfīl-fiqhal-siyāsī al-Islāmī [The Jurisprudence of Revolution: Revisions in Islamic Political Jurisprudence] published in 2013,2 a justification of the revolts of the Arab Spring and a discussion of Islamic views of democracy.3

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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