Speaking for Islam : religious authorities in Muslim societies / edited by Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke.

Who speaks for Islam? To whom do Muslims turn when they look for guidance? To what extent do individual scholars and preachers exert religious authority, and how can it be assessed? The upsurge of Islamism has lent new urgency to these questions, but they have deeper roots and a much longer history,...

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Other Authors: Krämer, Gudrun, Schmidtke, Sabine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 100.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Religious Authority and Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies : A Critical Overview / Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke
  • "This Day I Have Perfected Your Religion For You" : a Zāhirī Conception of Religious Authority / Camilla Adang
  • The Epistemology of Excellence : Sunni-Shiʻi Dialectics on Legitimate Leadership / Asma Afsaruddin
  • The Relationship Between Chief Qāḍī and Chief Dāʻī Under the Fatimids / Paul E. Walker
  • Forms and Functions of 'Licences to Transmit' (Ijāzas) in 18th-Century Iran : ʻAbd Allāh al-Mūsawī al-Jazāʼirī Al-Tustarī's (1112-73/1701-59) Ijāza Kabīra / Sabine Schmidtke
  • Asserting Religious Authority in late 19th/early 20th Century Morocco : Muhammad b. Jaʻfar al-Kattānī (d. 1927) and his Kitāb Salwat al-Anfās / Bettina Dennerlein
  • Consensus and Religious Authority in Modern Islam : The Discourses of the ʻUlamāʼ / Muhammad Qasim Zaman
  • Drawing Boundaries : Yūsef al-Qaraḍāwī on Apostasy / Gudrun Krämer
  • A Doctrine in the Making? : Velāyat-e faqīh in Post-Revolutionary Iran / Katajun Amirpur
  • Religious Authority in Transnational Sufi Networks : Shaykh Nāẓim al-Qubrusī al-Ḥaqqānī al-Naqshbandī / Annabelle Böttcher
  • The Modern Dede : Changing Parameters for Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkish Alevism / Markus Dressler.