Table of Contents

Introduction: 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

About the Author

Gudrun Krämer 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.