Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


Islamic ethics on the state’s moralising role

Before proceeding to examine the structures and functions of state moralising in Morocco, it is important to understand how Islamic ethics envisages the state’s role in public morality. Luckily, the literature of al-Aḥkām alsulṭāniyya and al-siyāsa al-sharʿiyya from Abū al-Ḥasan al-Māwardī (d. 1058) to Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) dealt extensively with this topic and offers us ample information and hundreds of cases to reflect on. The institution of ḥisba, as a state institution, legitimately enforced public morality.1

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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