Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


The process of dissent

Kadīvar’s dissent began in the summer of 1987 because of political reasons, namely the conflict between his mentor Montaẓerī and Khomeini.1 The latter had ordered the persecution of Montaẓerī and his close circle; Kadīvar developed “skepticism towards the validity of certain major policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran and has opposed revisions to the constitution of the Islamic Republic in 1989”.2 Kadīvar started to question publicly in a series of articles the Iranian regime about the assassination of Iranian dissidents, culminating in 1998 when he gave speeches at the Qadr Nights in Tehran and Isfahan to call to “the right to life in religious society” and “the religious prohibition against terror”. His interview with the Khordad Daily in February 1998, also criticised the Islamic Republic’s performance after 20 years of the Iranian revolution.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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