商品簡介
This collection of 11 essays is concerned not so much with Islamic authority but with authorities--those who claim to project and exert religious authority within a given context. Focusing on the concept that Islam is first and foremost a scriptural religion, contributors analyze such topics as a Zahiri conception of religious authority, Sunni/Shii dialectics on legitimate leadership, the relationship between chief Qadi and Chief Dai under the Fatmids, the "licenses to transmit" in eighteenth-century Iran in the Ijaza Kabira, religious authority in Morocco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consensus and religious authority in modern Islam, apostasy according to Yusef al-Qaradawi, post-revolutionary Iran's doctrine in the making, religious authority in transnational Sufi networks, and changing parameters for religious authority in contemporary Turkish Alevism. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Gudrun Kramer is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free University, Berlin. She has published extensively on Middle Eastern history, Islamic movements and Islamic political thought. Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free University, Berlin. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish intellectual history.