Navigating Religious Authority In Muslim Societies

Author : Asif Mohiuddin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3031448243

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Navigating Religious Authority in Muslim Societies by Asif Mohiuddin Pdf

Globalisation stands as an indispensable lens through which to analyse current cultural, political, and social transformations. This prevailing paradigm, acknowledged by its advocates and critics, profoundly shapes our environment. Within this global landscape, Islam's position is noteworthy—often perceived as rejecting globalisation and its secular underpinnings. This book offers a perspective of the global resurgence of religion in general and the revival of Islam in particular as crucial features of globalisation. Furthermore, the book deeply explores how Islamist groups strategically challenge religious authority, utilising social media and the internet to reshape their spheres of influence. By exploring these dynamics, the book aims to provide comprehensive insights into the interplay between Islamist strategies, digital platforms, and religious institutions within our interconnected world.

Author : Gudrun Krämer,Sabine Schmidtke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047408864

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Speaking for Islam by Gudrun Krämer,Sabine Schmidtke Pdf

The 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.

Author : Asif Mohiuddin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031448256

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Navigating Religious Authority in Muslim Societies by Asif Mohiuddin Pdf

Globalisation stands as an indispensable lens through which to analyse current cultural, political, and social transformations. This prevailing paradigm, acknowledged by its advocates and critics, profoundly shapes our environment. Within this global landscape, Islam's position is noteworthy—often perceived as rejecting globalisation and its secular underpinnings. This book offers a perspective of the global resurgence of religion in general and the revival of Islam in particular as crucial features of globalisation. Furthermore, the book deeply explores how Islamist groups strategically challenge religious authority, utilising social media and the internet to reshape their spheres of influence. By exploring these dynamics, the book aims to provide comprehensive insights into the interplay between Islamist strategies, digital platforms, and religious institutions within our interconnected world.

Author : Carool Kersten,Susanne Olsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authority
ISBN : 140944130X

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Alternative Islamic Discourses and Religious Authority by Carool Kersten,Susanne Olsson Pdf

This book argues that the centre of gravity for alternative Islamic discourses will continue to shift from the Arabic-speaking 'heartland' towards the geographical peripheries of the Muslim world and expatriate Muslims in North America and Europe. This process has consequences for the question of authority among Muslims. In view of recent seismic shifts in the political constellation of the Middle East, the trends discussed in this book hold important clues for the possible direction of future developments in that part of the Muslim world.

Author : Gary R. Bunt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469643175

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Hashtag Islam by Gary R. Bunt Pdf

Gary R. Bunt is a twenty-year pioneer in the study of cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs). In his new book, Bunt explores the diverse and surprising ways digital technology is shaping how Muslims across vast territories relate to religious authorities in fulfilling spiritual, mystical, and legalistic agendas. From social networks to websites, essential elements of religious practices and authority now have representation online. Muslims, embracing the immediacy and general accessibility of the internet, are increasingly turning to cyberspace for advice and answers to important religious questions. Online environments often challenge traditional models of authority, however. One result is the rise of digitally literate religious scholars and authorities whose influence and impact go beyond traditional boundaries of imams, mullahs, and shaikhs. Bunt shows how online rhetoric and social media are being used to articulate religious faith by many different kinds of Muslim organizations and individuals, from Muslim comedians and women's rights advocates to jihad-oriented groups, such as the "Islamic State" and al-Qaeda, which now clearly rely on strategic digital media policies to augment and justify their authority and draw recruits. This book makes clear that understanding CIEs is crucial for the holistic interpretation of authority in contemporary Islam.

Author : Nabil Mouline
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300206616

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The Clerics of Islam by Nabil Mouline Pdf

Followers of Muhammad b. ’Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam’s Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he inspired, however, have often been limited by scholars’ insufficient access to key sources within Saudi Arabia. Nabil Mouline was granted rare interviews and admittance to important Saudi archives in preparation for this groundbreaking book, the first in-depth study of the Wahhabi religious movement from its founding to the modern day. Gleaning information from both written and oral sources and employing a multidisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, and Islamic studies, Mouline presents a new reading of this movement that transcends the usual resort to polemics.

Author : Jamal J. Elias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780746845

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Key Themes for the Study of Islam by Jamal J. Elias Pdf

"Key Themes for the Study of Islam" examines the central themes and concepts indispensable to an informed understanding of Islamic religion and society. From Gender and History to Prayer and Prophecy, each authoritative chapter focuses on a single aspect of the religion and presents a critical discussion written by a world expert in that field. Exposing as false the idea that Islam and Muslims are incomprehensible to Western culture, this book will become the first choice for students and experts in religion from disparate fields, who wish to know how Islam relates to vital concepts in religion and society today.

Author : Gary R. Bunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1469643189

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Hashtag Islam by Gary R. Bunt Pdf

Author : Mirjam Künkler,Devin J. Stewart
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1474426603

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Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam by Mirjam Künkler,Devin J. Stewart Pdf

This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Islamic world, compares the role of women across time and space.

Author : Stewart M. Hoover
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271077932

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The Media and Religious Authority by Stewart M. Hoover Pdf

As the availability and use of media platforms continue to expand, the cultural visibility of religion is on the rise, leading to questions about religious authority: Where does it come from? How is it established? What might be changing it? The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine the ways in which new centers of power and influence are emerging as religions seek to “brand” themselves in the media age. Putting their in-depth, incisive studies of particular instances of media production and reception in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America into conversation with one another, the volume explores how evolving mediations of religion in various places affect the prospects, aspirations, and durability of religious authority across the globe. An insightful combination of theoretical groundwork and individual case studies, The Media and Religious Authority invites us to rethink the relationships among the media, religion, and culture. The contributors are Karina Kosicki Bellotti, Alexandra Boutros, Pauline Hope Cheong, Peter Horsfield, Christine Hoff Kraemer, Joonseong Lee, Alf Linderman, Bahíyyah Maroon, Montré Aza Missouri, and Emily Zeamer, with an afterword by Lynn Schofield Clark.

Author : Hamid Mavani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135044732

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Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi'ism by Hamid Mavani Pdf

Ranging from the time of the infallible Imams, to the contemporary era, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Shi’i religious and political authority, focusing on Iran and Lebanon, without limiting the discourse to Khomeini’s version of an Islamic State. Utilising untapped Arabic and Persian sources, Hamid Mavani provides a detailed, nuanced, and diverse theoretical discussion on the doctrine of leadership (Imamate) in Shi’ism from traditional, theological, philosophical, and mystical perspectives. This theoretical discussion becomes the foundation for an analysis of the transmission of the Twelfth Imam’s religious and political authority vis-á-vis the jurists during his Greater Occultation. Bringing the often overlooked diversity within the Shi’i tradition into sharp focus, Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi’ism discusses what constitutes an Islamic state, if there is such a notion as an Islamic state. Hamid Mavani further explores the possibility of creating a space for secularity, facilitating a separation between religion and state, and ensuring equal rights for all. This book argues that such a development is only possible if there is a rehabilitation of ijtihad. If this were to materialise modern religious, social, economic, political, and cultural challenges could be addressed more successfully. This book will be of use to scholars and students with interests ranging from Politics, to Religion, to Middle East Studies.

Author : Haroon Moghul
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807020746

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How to Be a Muslim by Haroon Moghul Pdf

A searing portrait of Muslim life in the West, this “profound and intimate” memoir captures one man’s struggle to forge an American Muslim identity (Washington Post) Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University’s Islamic Center forced into appearances everywhere: on TV, before interfaith audiences, in print. Moghul was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims even as he struggled with his relationship to Islam. In high school he was barely a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He sometimes drank. He didn’t pray regularly. All he wanted was a girlfriend. But as he discovered, it wasn’t so easy to leave religion behind. To be true to himself, he needed to forge a unique American Muslim identity that reflected his beliefs and personality. How to Be a Muslim reveals a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that fears Muslims, struggling with his faith and searching for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it’s like to lose yourself between cultures and how to pick up the pieces.

Author : Ismail Fajrie Alatas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691204291

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What Is Religious Authority? by Ismail Fajrie Alatas Pdf

An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of Java This compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing how religious leaders unite diverse aspects of life and contest differing Muslim perspectives to create distinctly Muslim communities. Taking readers from the eighteenth century to today, Alatas traces the movements of Muslim saints and scholars from Yemen to Indonesia and looks at how they traversed complex cultural settings while opening new channels for the transmission of Islamic teachings. He describes the rise to prominence of Indonesia's leading Sufi master, Habib Luthfi, and his rivalries with competing religious leaders, revealing why some Muslim voices become authoritative while others don't. Alatas examines how Habib Luthfi has used the infrastructures of the Sufi order and the Indonesian state to build a durable religious community, while deploying genealogy and hagiography to present himself as a successor of the Prophet Muḥammad. Challenging prevailing conceptions of what it means to be Muslim, What Is Religious Authority? demonstrates how the concrete and sustained labors of translation, mobilization, collaboration, and competition are the very dynamics that give Islam its power and diversity.

Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521246350

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Religion and Politics in Muslim Society by Akbar S. Ahmed Pdf

This analysis of Muslim unrest is based on an extended case study of northwestern Pakistan. Professor Ahmed examines power, authority, and religious status as the critical intermediary level of society: that of the district or Agency, which was the key unit of administration in British India. Amhed has joined his insights as anthropologist with his experience as a political agent in Waziristan to produce an innovative and detailed work. The book focuses on the emergence of a mullah in Waziristan who challenges the state. A religious leader's challenge of the state is not new; but contemporary Muslim society's widespread concern over these conflicts reveals that the influence of religion in a traditional society undergoing modernization is greater than many scholars have assumed. The author identifies three types of leaders: traditional leaders, usually elders; representatives of the established state authority; and religious functionaries. From this analysis he constructs an 'Islamic district paradigm,' which he uses not only in making sense of contemporary Muslim society, but also in understanding some aspects of the legacy of the colonial encounter.

Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107096455

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Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age by Muhammad Qasim Zaman Pdf

This book explores some of the most fiercely debated issues facing the Islamic world today.