Title: Speaking for Islam : religious authorities in Muslim societies /
Authors: Krämer, Gudrun.; Schmidtke, Sabine
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Authority Religious aspects Islam.; Islamic law Islamic countries.; Muslim scholars Islamic countries.
Contents: Introduction: Religious authority and religious authorities in Muslim societies. A critical overview / Gudrun Kramer and Sabine Schmidtke -- "This day have I perfected your religion for you": A Zahiri conception of religious authority / Camilla Adang -- The epistemology of excellence: Sunni-Shi'i dialectics on legitimate leadership / Asma Afsaruddin -- The relationship between Chief Qadi and Chief Da'i under the Fatimids / Paul E. Walker -- Forms and functions of 'licences to transmit' (Ijazas) in 18th-century-Iran: 'Abd Allah al-Musawi al-Jaza'iri al-Tustari's (1112-73/1701-59) Ijaza Kabira / Sabine Schmidtke -- Asserting religious authority in late 19th/early 20th century Morocco: Muhammad born Ja'far al'Kattani (d. 1927) and his Kitab Salwat al-Anfas / Bettina Dennerlein -- Consensus and religious authority in modern Islam: The discourses of the 'Ulama' / Muhammad Qasism Zaman -- Drawing boundaries: Yusuf al-Qaradawi on Apostasy / Gudrun Kramer -- A doctrine in the making? Velayat-e faqih in post-revolutionary Iran / Katajun Amirpur -- Religious authority in transnational Sufi networks: Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani al-Naqshbandi / Annabelle Bottcher -- The modern Dede: Changing parameters for religious authority in contemporary Turkish alevism / Markus Dressler.