基本説明
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 present volume - Grown out of an international symposium at the Free University, Berlin in 2003 - 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.
Full Description
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.
Contents
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-Shiʿi 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-Mūsawī al-Jazāʾirī al-Tustarī's (1112-73/1701-59) Ijāza Kabīra
Sabine Schmidtke
Asserting Religious Authority in late 19th/early 20th Century Morocco: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī (d. 1927) and his Kitāb Salwat al-Anās
Bettina Dennerlein
Consensus and Religious Authority in Modern Islam: The Discourses of the ʿUlamāʾ
Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Drawing Boundaries: Yūsuf al-Qarḍāwī 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-Naqshbanī
Annabelle Böttcher
The Modern Dede: Changing Parameters for Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkish Alevism
Markus Dressler
Index
