The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam

Volume 2, Heirs of the Prophet: Authority and Power
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46674-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 159/2, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 989 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East / The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam

This second collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in early modern and modern times.

The authors provide a rich collection of case studies on how Muhammad’s material, spiritual, and genealogical heritage has been claimed for the foundation of Muslim empires, revolutionary movements, the formation of modern nation states and ideologies, as well as for communal mobilization and social reform.

This novel comparative, and diachronic study, which is unique for its wide coverage of regional cases and perspectives, reveals diverse political representations of the Prophet in an increasingly globalised struggle over the control of his image between secularization and sacralization.

Contributors

Gianfranco Bria, Rachida Chih, Christoph Günther, Gottfried Hagen, Jan-Peter Hartung, David Jordan, Soraya Khodamoradi, Jamal Malik, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Alix Philippon, Martin Riexinger, Stefan Reichmuth, Dilek Sarmis, Renaud Soler, Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami, Florian Zemmin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chih, Rachida

Reichmuth, Stefan

Jordan, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Rachida Chih, David Jordan, and Stefan Reichmuth

Part 1: Empires and Revolutions

1 Pietas Ottomanica

The House of Osman and the Prophet Muhammad

Gottfried Hagen

2 Model, Not Idol

The Recasting of the Image of Muhammad in Mukhtasar sirat al-rasul by Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1792)

Martin Riexinger

3 The Prophet in a Muslim Age of Revolutions (ca. 1775–1850)

Stefan Reichmuth

Part 2: Prophetic Descent and Authority

4 Mafhum al-niqaba bayna al-tawjih al-shar'i wa-l-sayrura al-tarikhiyya fi l-Maghrib al-Aqsa (The Concept of the Niqaba between Legal Norm and Historical Development in Morocco)

Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami

English Summary of Chapter 4

Stefan Reichmuth

5 Siyada and Imamate in Eighteenth-Century India

The Tariqa Muhammadiyya Khalisa and the Sunni–Shi'i Sectarian Conflict

Soraya Khodamoradi

6 Vérification des généalogies (tahqiq al-ansab) et centralité égyptienne

Le Syndicat des descendants du Prophète (niqabat al-ashraf) à l’époque contemporaine

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

Part 3: Modern Nation-States and Ideologies

7 Le rôle du Prophète dans l’approche marxiste de l’histoire de Bandali Jawzi (1871-1942)

Min tarikh al-harakat al-fikriyya fi l-islam (De l’histoire des mouvements de pensée en islam)

Renaud Soler

8 The Place and Functions of the Figure of the Prophet in Turkish School Textbooks and General Religious Teaching

Citizenship Models and the Legitimisation of the State

Dilek Sarmis

9 The Prophet, His Mevlud, and the Building of the Albanian Nation-State

Gianfranco Bria

10 The Prophet, Law, and Constitution in Pakistani Society

Jamal Malik

11 “So Let Today Be All the Arabs Muhammad”

The Prophet in the Discourse of the Iraqi Ba'th Party

David Jordan

part 4: Mobilisation, Empowerment, and Social Reform

12 The Modern Prophet

Rashid Rida’s Construction of Muhammad as Religious and Social Reformer

Florian Zemmin

13 Religious Revival (tajdid) and Politics in Contemporary Morocco

“The Prophetic Path” of Shaykh Abdessalam Yassine (d. 2012)

Rachida Chih

14 For the Love of Prophet Muhammad

Religious Devotion and Political Mobilisation among the Barelwis of Pakistan

Alix Philippon

15 Taking Lessons from the Prophet in Times of War

Muhammadan Images during the Afghan Resistance (ca. 1978–92)

Jan-Peter Hartung

16 al-Dawla al-nabawiyya

Appropriating the Prophet’s Authority in the Islamic State’s Media

Christoph Günther

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rachida Chih (Ph. D. 1996 Aix-en Provence) is Senior Researcher (CNRS, Paris), specialist for the history, literature and anthropology of Sufism in Egypt and Morocco. Publications include: Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2019).


Stefan Reichmuth (Ph. D. 1983 Berlin, Habilitation 1992 Bayreuth) is retired Professor for Arabic and Islamic Studies at Bochum University. Publications on Islam in Africa, on science, Sufism and transregional networks include “Aspects of Prophetic Piety in the Early Modern Period” (2017).

David Jordan (Ph. D. 2019 Hamburg) is Research Associate for Islamic Studies at Bochum University. He publishes on religion and politics in the modern Middle East, including: “Jaysh rijal al-tariqa al-naqshbandiya: The Sufi Resistance of the Former Ba'th Party in Iraq” (2020).

Contributors

Gianfranco Bria, Rachida Chih, Christoph Günther, Gottfried Hagen, Jan-Peter Hartung, David Jordan, Soraya Khodamoradi, Jamal Malik, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Alix Philippon, Martin Riexinger, Stefan Reichmuth, Dilek Sarmis, Renaud Soler, Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami, Florian Zemmin.