Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


The process of authorisation

Saʿd al-Dīn Musʿad Hilālī (born in Mansoura, Egypt in 1954) is an Egyptian Muslim preacher, jurist and academic who, since 1996 has been a professor of Comparative Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Sharia and Law at Al-Azhar University. He received his primary and secondary education in Al-Azhar schools; he graduated from the Faculty of Sharia and Law of al-Azhar in Cairo in 1978 and obtained his PhD in Comparative Law at al-Azhar University in 1985. He was dean of the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Al-Azhar Branch in Aswan and dean of the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Al-Azhar Branch, Damietta, in the 1990s. He was also head of the Department of Jurisprudence and Islamic legal theory at the College of Sharia, Kuwait University, (2002–2004). Hilālī worked as a religious consultant for a number of ministries, media outlets and research bodies on fiqh. Hilālī’s work (over 15 books) was recognised especially on medical and financial issues in fiqh, obtaining prestigious prizes from Kuwait, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.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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