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

• Superior document: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, v. 100
• TeilnehmendeR: Kramer, Gudrun.; Schmidtke, Sabine.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 100.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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, and they certainly should not be considered in the light of present concerns only. The present volume – grown out of an international symposium at the Free University, Berlin in 2002 – is not so much concerned with religious authority , but with religious authorities , men and women claiming, projecting and exerting religious authority within a given context. It addresses issues such as the relationship of knowledge, conduct and charisma, the social functions of the schools of law and theology, and the efforts on the part of governments and rulers to organize religious scholars and to implement state-centred hierarchies. The volume focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and the individual papers offer case studies elucidating important aspects of the wider phenomenon. Individually and collectively, they highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in past and present Muslim societies. This book is also available in paperback .

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Religious Authority and Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies. A Critical Overview / Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke -- “This day have I perfected your religion for you”: A Ẓāhirī Conception of Religious Authority / Camilla Adang -- The Epistemology of Excellence: Sunni-Shi'i Dialectics on Legitimate Leadership / Asma Afsaruddin -- The Relationship between Chief Qāḍī and Chief Dāʿī under the Fatimids / Paul E. Walker -- Forms and Functions of ‘Licences To Transmit’ (Ijāzas) in 18th-Century-Iran: ʿAbd Allāh al-Mùsawī al-Jazāʾirī al-Tustarī’s (1112–73/1701–59) Ijāza Kabīra / Sabine Schmidtke -- Asserting Religious Authority in late 19th/early 20th Century Morocco: Mu˙ammad born Jaʿfar al-Kattānī (d. 1927) and his Kitāb Salwat al-Anfās / Bettina Dennerlein -- Consensus and Religious Authority in Modern Islam: The Discourses of the ʿUlamāʾ / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- Drawing Boundaries: Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwì 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 -- Index -- Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia.