Beyond the Global Mufti: Religious Authority as Political Action

The International Union of Muslim Scholars, headquartered in Qatar, is an organisation of Muslim jurists founded in 2004 by Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī and led today by Aḥmad al-Raysūnī. Despite its importance in the current religious-political discourse in the Muslim world and beyond, this organisation recei...

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Main Author: Belhaj, Abdessamad 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 2
Further subjects:B Authority
B ‘ulamā’
B The International Union of Muslim Scholars
B Legitimacy
B Ummah
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