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Book SynopsisThe present volume – grown out of an international symposium at the Free University, Berlin in 2002 – is concerned with religious authorities, men and women claiming, projecting and exerting religious authority within a given context. The volume focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and the papers collected therein highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in present and past Muslim societies.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
