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Gudrun Krämer
Gudrun Krämer (born 1953) is a German scholar of Islamic history and co-editor of the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. She is professor of Islamic studies, Chair of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her expertise is in topics related to modern Islamic history and in Islam, democracy, and modernity.
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Speaking for Islam : religious authorities in Muslim societies /
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Who speaks for Islam? To whom do Muslims turn when they look for guidance? To what extent do individual scholars and preachers exert religious authority, and how can it be assessed? The upsurge of Islamism has lent new urgency to these questions, but they have deeper roots and a much longer history, and they certainly should not be considered in the light of present concerns only. The present volume - grown out of an international symposium at the Free University, Berlin in 2002 - is not so much concerned with religious authority , but with religious authorities , men and women claiming, projecting and exerting religious authority within a given context. It addresses issues such as the relationship of knowledge, conduct and charisma, the social functions of the schools of law and theology, and the efforts on the part of governments and rulers to organize religious scholars and to implement state-centred hierarchies. The volume focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and the individual papers offer case studies elucidating important aspects of the wider phenomenon. Individually and collectively, they highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in past and present Muslim societies. This book is also available in paperback .
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
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Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam : three.
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"The Third Edition is an entirely new work and ... draws on a wider range of disciplines and methodologies....The Third Edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam will appear in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print"--Spring 2007 Preview Issue.
Vols. 2007, part 2-2011, part 2 edited by Gudrun Krämer et al.; vol. 2011, part 3 edited by Denis Matringe et al.; vol. 2011, pt. 4 edited by Gudrun Krämer et al.; vols. 2012-2017 edited by Kate Fleet et al.
Each issue contains a cumulative index to the set. :
volumes <2007-2017> : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
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