Authority in Contemporary Islam
Structures, Figures and Functions
A discussion: two paradigms of religious dissidence
Tartalomjegyzék
- Authority in Contemporary Islam • Structures, Figures and Functions
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Muslim religious authority in Europe between change and resilience
- Introduction
- Religious authority and the problem of change
- The resilience of religious leaders, especially in the face of the Covid-19 health crisis and its implications
- Structures of religious authority
- Claims to authority
- Figures of authority
- Resilience and the limits to religious authority
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- Chapter II. The religious manager between religious authority and political power: the case of the Muslim executive of Belgium
- Chapter III. The Muslim jurist as a guide: the case of the International Union of Muslim Scholars
- Chapter IV. The state and public morality in Muslim contexts: a study of the Moroccan case
- Introduction
- The state and public morality in tension
- The problem of the moralising state in Muslim contexts
- Islamic ethics on the state’s moralising role
- Structures and functions of the moralising state in Morocco
- The moralising state: the dilemmas of authority and subversion, order and chaos
- Conclusion: limits to the moralising state
- Introduction
- Chapter V. Religious counter-authority and power: dissent in contemporary Islam
- Conclusion
- References
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).
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