The Making of the Fatwa: The Production of Islamic Expertise in Europe

Submitted by Munir on Sun, 09/04/2022 - 09:10
Year
2018
Country
Germany
Language
English
Abstract

This article examines the kind of expertise that is provided by Muslim actors specialized in Islamic Law (muftis) to their coreligionists in Europe. It seeks to understand how the production of this expertise (the fatwa) is organized and managed, and to what extent it is shaped by policy discourses in the West. The article thus seeks to fill a relative gap in the scholarship on Islam in Europe which has often reduced fatwas to ahistorical and fundamentalist rhetorics. Taking the European Council for Fatwa and Reseach as a case study, the author describes the settings, actors and logics of the production of fatwas in the European context.

English
ISSN/ISBN
978-3959940207
No. of Pages
1006
City
Berlin
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