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Book SynopsisThis second collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in early modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of case studies on how Muhammad’s material, spiritual, and genealogical heritage has been claimed for the foundation of Muslim empires, revolutionary movements, the formation of modern nation states and ideologies, as well as for communal mobilization and social reform. This novel comparative, and diachronic study, which is unique for its wide coverage of regional cases and perspectives, reveals diverse political representations of the Prophet in an increasingly globalised struggle over the control of his image between secularization and sacralization. Contributors Gianfranco Bria, Rachida Chih, Christoph Günther, Gottfried Hagen, Jan-Peter Hartung, David Jordan, Soraya Khodamoradi, Jamal Malik, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Alix Philippon, Martin Riexinger, Stefan Reichmuth, Dilek Sarmis, Renaud Soler, Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami, Florian Zemmin.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Rachida Chih, David Jordan, and Stefan Reichmuth Part 1: Empires and Revolutions 1 Pietas Ottomanica The House of Osman and the Prophet Muḥammad Gottfried Hagen 2 Model, Not Idol The Recasting of the Image of Muḥammad in Mukhtaṣar sīrat al-rasūl by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792) Martin Riexinger 3 The Prophet in a Muslim Age of Revolutions (ca. 1775–1850) Stefan Reichmuth Part 2: Prophetic Descent and Authority 4 Mafhūm al-niqāba bayna al-tawjīh al-sharʿī wa-l-ṣayrūra al-tārīkhiyya fī l-Maghrib al-Aqṣā (The Concept of the Niqāba between Legal Norm and Historical Development in Morocco) Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami English Summary of Chapter 4 Stefan Reichmuth 5 Siyāda and Imamate in Eighteenth-Century India The Ṭarīqa Muḥammadiyya Khāliṣa and the Sunnī–Shīʿī Sectarian Conflict Soraya Khodamoradi 6 Vérification des généalogies (taḥqīq al-ansāb) et centralité égyptienne Le Syndicat des descendants du Prophète (niqābat al-ashrāf) à l’époque contemporaine Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Part 3: Modern Nation-States and Ideologies 7 Le rôle du Prophète dans l’approche marxiste de l’histoire de Bandalī Jawzī (1871-1942) Min tārīkh al-ḥarakāt al-fikriyya fī l-islām (De l’histoire des mouvements de pensée en islam) Renaud Soler 8 The Place and Functions of the Figure of the Prophet in Turkish School Textbooks and General Religious Teaching Citizenship Models and the Legitimisation of the State Dilek Sarmis 9 The Prophet, His Mevlud, and the Building of the Albanian Nation-State Gianfranco Bria 10 The Prophet, Law, and Constitution in Pakistani Society Jamal Malik 11 “So Let Today Be All the Arabs Muḥammad” The Prophet in the Discourse of the Iraqi Baʿth Party David Jordan part 4: Mobilisation, Empowerment, and Social Reform 12 The Modern Prophet Rashīd Riḍā’s Construction of Muḥammad as Religious and Social Reformer Florian Zemmin 13 Religious Revival (tajdīd) and Politics in Contemporary Morocco “The Prophetic Path” of Shaykh Abdessalam Yassine (d. 2012) Rachida Chih 14 For the Love of Prophet Muḥammad Religious Devotion and Political Mobilisation among the Barelwis of Pakistan Alix Philippon 15 Taking Lessons from the Prophet in Times of War Muḥammadan Images during the Afghan Resistance (ca. 1978–92) Jan-Peter Hartung 16 al-Dawla al-nabawiyya Appropriating the Prophet’s Authority in the Islamic State’s Media Christoph Günther Index
