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,...

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.