scholarly journals Bilder i hjemmet – hvordan visuelle uttrykk definerer muslimske rom i Norge

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Birte Brekketo
Keyword(s):  
Sunni Islam

Målet for denne artikkelen er å undersøke hvordan norske muslimske familier orienterer seg mellom sunni-islamsk og vestlig visuell tradisjon, hvordan de forholder seg til dilemmaer som oppstår når tradisjoner divergerer, og hvordan de konstruerer sin visuelle og religiøse identitet når de lever i diaspora. Artikkelen baserer seg på empiri fra intervjuer med tjue unge informanter. De forklarer at de og deres familier klassifiserer bilder i to hovedkategorier: Religiøse kalligrafiske bilder, som behandles i tråd med skikker og ritualer i hjemmet. Når det gjelder den andre kategorien, figurative bilder med sekulært fokus, er situasjonen annerledes: Noen typer av figurative bilder, særlig portrettfotografier, skaper konflikter i familiene. Innen sunni-islam finnes det ulike syn på slike bilder. Ofte blir portrettfotografiet oppfattet som en selvstendig sosial aktør, og man tenker seg at det kan øve uheldig innflytelse på betraktere og skape uro på de stedene der bønn praktiseres. Siden mange muslimer ber hjemme, kreves det nøye overveielser når bilder skal plasseres.

Securitization as a Tool of Regime Survival: The Deployment of Religious Rhetoric in Bashar al-Asad's Speeches

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-32
Author(s):  
Rahaf Aldoughli
Keyword(s):  
Religious Rhetoric ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
National Unity ◽  
State Security ◽  
Sunni Islam ◽  
Regime Survival

This article analyzes the role of Sunni Islam in speeches given to religious scholars by Syrian president Bashar al-Asad in 2014 and 2017. I discuss how religion was used in these speeches as a security tool to consolidate authority, legitimize the Ba'thist regime, and marginalize political dissidents. I specifically highlight the emphasis Asad placed on convincing government-recognized 'ulama to support state security measures and to the novel links he constructed between Islam and national unity.

scholarly journals Law and Theory: Pre-modern and Contemporary Development of Islamic Discourse on Rebellion

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Tasha Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sunni Islam ◽  
Historical Discourses ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Obedience To Authority

Scholars have argued that the early theoretical and historical discourses concerning concepts of rebellion and political violence within Islam, specifically Sunni Islam, developed during a time of conflict within the early Islamic Community.  In their quest for stability and desire for the preservation of order, early Muslim jurists used key moments in the history of the early Community, as well as doctrinal sources, in order to construct a theoretical discourse addressing rebellion and obedience to authority.  Similar to the methods of the early jurists, the construction of contemporary discourses concerning obedience and rebellion have been used by modern Islamic scholars in order to confront issues involving protesting and political violence, especially as they relate to contemporary events such as socio-political movements, dissent, and notably, the Arab Uprisings. The purpose of this paper is to provide a survey of these pre-modern and contemporary discourses and how their contexts influence Islamic legal approaches.

Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 745-763
Author(s):  
Ceren Özgül
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
National Body ◽  
Sunni Islam ◽  
Turkish Society ◽  
Secular State

This chapter argues that the supposed binary of a secular state and popular Islam is inadequate as a tool of analysis if we are to understand how religion has become a prominent category of both privilege and exclusion in Turkish society. Specifically, it contends that successive Turkish governments have privileged Sunni Islam as national identity. To build this argument, the chapter follows two parallel threads. The first analyses the ethnic and religious homogenization of the national body with a particular emphasis on violence against non-Muslim and non-Sunni groups. The second shows how, within the larger historical context of modernization theory, Cold War politics, and the post-9/11 promotion of moderate Islam, successive Turkish governments worked towards maintaining Sunni Muslim privilege while continuously expanding the category of enemies of the Turkish nation.

Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Talismano

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-80
Author(s):  
Hoda El Shakry
Keyword(s):  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sunni Islam ◽  
Critical Writings

Chapter 2 analyzes Tunisian writer and critic Abdelwahab Meddeb’s (1946–2014) wildly experimental 1979 novel Talismano. The labyrinthine text takes the reader on a hallucinatory journey through Tunisia’s topography—historical and contemporary, imagined and mythical—through a multitude of languages, temporalities, and religious discourses. The story presciently traces the evolution of a popular rebellion as it winds its way through the cityscape of Tunis’s medina bearing a retinue of prophets, artisans, sorceresses, alchemists, and prostitutes. The chapter examines Meddeb’s polemical attack on Bourguiba-era Tunisia, in which hegemonic power is simultaneously concentrated in state and religious institutions. Talismano subsequently demonstrates the co-constitutional nature of religious and state epistemologies, as well as their attendant institutions and discourses. The novel counteracts these forces in its rescripting of the Qurʾan, as well as its invocation of Sufi figures, texts, and rituals. The chapter contextualizes Talismano’s Sufi poetics within the Meddeb’s polemical critical writings against “orthodox” Sunni Islam.

Sunni Islam

2013 ◽  
pp. 146-173
Author(s):  
Ira M. Lapidus
Keyword(s):  
Sunni Islam
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