Abdessamad Belhaj
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 304825 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Abdessamad Belhaj |
| PRENOMES | Abdessamad |
| SOBRENOME | Belhaj |
| ASSINATURA | BELHAJ A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ludovika University of Public Service |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2584-0532 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Concept of Injustice in Modern Arabic-Islamic Thought
This article studies the way modern Arabic Islamic thought on injustice (ẓulm) evolved in recent decades, emphasizing three Islamic viewpoints on injustice (traditional homiletic theology, social-ethical, and political-civilizational discourses). This theological-ethical discursive field, which extensively uses the texts of the Qur’ān and the ḥadīth, advances a set of norms for what defines just individuals, societies, and states. Furthermore, it…
Islamic Pacifism
Despite increased interest in Islamic pacifism, there are still significant gaps in academic research on this topic, especially regarding the contexts of its emergence, its shared principles and ethical dilemmas. The goal of this article is to chart the rise and evolution of Islamic pacifism throughout various Muslim contexts since the middle of the 20th century. I will also discuss some of the main ethical principles of Islamic pacifism as they …
The Authority of Non-Muslims (wilāyat al-kāfir) in Medieval Islamic Law
Classical Muslim jurists discussed the authority of the non-Muslim ( wilāyat al-kāfir ) in two primary areas: marriage and the judiciary. According to the majority of jurists, the non-Muslim has no authority over his Muslim daughter’s marriage. However, some jurists such as al-Awzāʿī acknowledged a non-Muslim father’s authority over his Muslim daughter. Muslim jurists forbade a non-Muslim to exert authority over a Muslim in the courts or in gover…
Political Loyalty and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law
The European Council for Fatwa and Research, the authoritative Sunni reformist scholarly institution (based in Dublin, Ireland), has so far published three fatwas and legal declarations concerning Muslims' allegiance to European states; these were released in 2006, 2007 and 2015, mainly by ʿAbdallāh b. Bayya and Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī. I suggest studying each of these discourses' arguments and theses in chronological order. Next, the resources and lim…
Fear without Power
This paper first discusses the idea of haybat al-ʿulamāʾ in Muslim mediaeval resources in order to give a brief but critical background for this concept as it evolved in modern Islamic ethics. I then examine six discourses produced by well-known contemporary salafi (Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, Sayyid Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Saʿd al-Burayk) and Islamist religious scholars (Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr, ʿAlī al-Ṣallābī, Hāni Muḥammed Yūsuf al-Sibāʿī) in Sa…
Muslim Loyalty and Identity in Europe
This article aims to study the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR)’s fatwas and legal statements concerning Muslims’ loyalties to European states. the authoritative Sunni reformist scholarly institution arguments and theses in chronological order. Next, I will examine the resources and limitations of loyalty in the ECFR’s fatwas in relation to the European securitization of loyalty. Specifically, emphasis will be placed on how, in the …
Approaching Freedom
One of the key problems of publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies is running the risk of producing an academic discourse that is somewhat disconnected from reality. This paper analyses freedom-related publications from the IslamicInfo and Index Islamicus databases to highlight this concern. Here, it is suggested that important ideas and moments of freedom movements in the modern history of Arabs and Muslims have been overlooked by Wes…
Discussions of Drought in Premodern Ḥadīth Collections
The subject of drought, or qaḥṭ, is extensively discussed in ḥadīth compilations, however very little research has been undertaken on their treatment of the subject. This paper thus proposes to investigate the treatment of drought in the ḥadīth literature in a systematic way. Our methodology consists in analysing the explanations offered by medieval Islamic ethics for drought, their discussions of the responses of political and religious authorit…
Venger le prophète
Injustice in Contemporary Islamic Theology
Since the 1980s, a theology of injustice has gained prominence in Islamic thought as a large body of literature has been written on the subject. One of the main tenets of this theology is the punishment of injustice in the afterlife, which emphasizes how unjust individuals will endure different punishments, including suffering in darkness on the Day of Resurrection. Some theologians use the divine punishment of unjust individuals in the hereafter…
Overcoming Violence in Islamic Ethics
Ṭāhā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān's Suʼāl al-ʻunf (The Question of Violence) is perhaps the most extensive philosophical-religious critique of violence in Islamic ethics in the last decade. He distinguishes between the notions of violence, force, and struggle, rejecting violence based on Islamic sources and critical ethics. He also suggests dialogism and ethics of trusteeship as viable forms of intellectual confrontation along with a toolkit for engagement wit…
From Divine to Popular Sovereignty
For various religious and political reasons, the idea of divine sovereignty (ḥākimiyya) has found support in many Islamic movements and discourses between the 1940s and the 1980s throughout the Muslim world. Nonetheless, in the 1990s, the consolidation of contemporary nation-states, the appeal of liberal democracy, and human rights in the Muslim world, along with the failure of Islamism, paved the way for a turn towards popular sovereignty in Isl…
Political Loyalty, Justice, and Trust
The Qur’ān emphasizes many virtues, including the ethics of covenant, justice, community trust, and institutional loyalty. In the Qur’ān, individuals and groups are obliged to uphold moral commitments, honour agreements, and foster justice and trust. On the other hand, Qur’ānic ethics provide an opportunity for repentance and behaviour modification for individuals who have violated the trust of others. Because Qur’ānic political ethics view moral…
Political Loyalty in Contemporary Islamic Ethics
This study aims to provide a thorough examination and analysis of the political loyalty discourses of two prominent figures in Sunnism and Twelver Shiism: the Egyptian-Qatari Sunni scholar Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī (1926-2022) and the Iraqi Twelver Shii scholar Muḥammad Mahdī al-Āṣifī (1939-2015). I discuss the origins and effects of these perspectives on political allegiance, demonstrating how Sunnism grounds political allegiance in pragmatic ethics and…
Pope Francis, Islam, and the Ethics of Recognition
Through his numerous visits to the Muslim world, and by promoting an ethics of recognition of Islam, Pope Francis built trust and a religious encounter with various Muslim institutions. His dedication to global ethical concerns, such as human brotherhood, the environment, migration, and peace, has made religious leaders throughout the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, Egypt, and the Gulf states, favourable to interfaith co-operation with the Cat…
Political Loyalty in Reformist Islamic Ethics
This article critically examines three authoritative Islamic discourses on political loyalty produced by prominent figures of Sunni reformist Islam: The Egyptian-Qatari Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī (1926-2022), the Mauritanian ʿAbdallāh b. Bayyah (b. 1935), and the Iraqi-Qatari ʿAlī al-Qaradāghī (b. 1949). First, I analyze the key arguments presented in each discourse: al-Qaradāghī advocates that allegiance is determined by fairness, whereas al-Qaraḍāwī ret…
Invited to witness
Invited to witness: solidarity tourism across occupied Palestine." Social Identities, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
In and out of this world
In and out of this world: material and extraterrestrial bodies in the Nation of Islam." Social Identities, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Religion as Critique
Muslim discourses on critique find their way most easily into mainstream Islamic studies and social sciences. In spite of initial resistance in the West and the Muslim world, the critical wave of t
Giving to God
Charity is central to Islam's doctrine (zakāt, ṣadaqa), historical institutions (waqf) and ethics (ʿamal al-khayr). Yet, in modern times, especially since Muslim countries gained their independence
Muslims and Capitalism
Muslims and Capitalism: An Uneasy Relationship?." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 32(3), pp. 355–356
Branding the Middle East
Green Theology
Theological Anthropology in Interreligious Perspective
The Concept of Environment in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Halal Matters
Secularism as Equality
Islamic resistance to secularism is one of the most frequently stated problems in France. This paper addresses this issue as seen by French Muslim discourses. It is argued, here, that French Muslim discourses on laïcité are determined by the claim of equal treatment of Muslims and non-Muslims in France. Thus, this paper highlights the importance of the inequality framework and the tendency to give preference to rights over responsibilities in Fre…
Islamic Political Theology
Contemporary Puritan Salafism
Between 2014 and 2017, a spectacular rise in the production of academic works on Salafism in English resulted in over a hundred books and articles on the topic; mostly repetitive and unoriginal, th
Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond
Preaching is an important component in Islamic ritual and religious discourse and so plays a key role in the traditional religious landscape as well as in a wide range of technologies used for daʿw
Secularism as an Anti-Religious Conspiracy
Regarding organizational power, Salafism in France is a minority of dispersed groups emerging on the periphery of the Muslim French space. However, it can be regarded as a discursive force that has influenced significantly French discussions about Islam. Specifically, one of the most contentious positions in French political and intellectual discourse at the moment is Salafi vehement rejection of laïcité as a conspiracy against religion in genera…
Abū Yaʿrub al-Marzūqī and His Critique of the maqāṣid Theory
The purpose of this essay was to examine and evaluate Abū Yaʿrub al-Marzūqī's criticism of the maqāṣid theory. Al-Marzūqī is mostly concerned with epistemology and ethics. He contends that the maqāṣid theory is insufficient to assert access to God's meaning in Islamic law, since it is based on shaky processes of knowledge, particularly that of ratiocination, taʿlīl. On the other hand, he challenges the maqāṣid jurists' authority to define the goa…
Spiritual but Not Religious? French Muslim Discourses on Spirituality
This article explores the possibility of a spiritual Islam in the West as a viable alternative to traditionalist and political Islam. It looks at the capabilities and limitations of two French Muslim voices, Abdennour Bidar and Éric Geoffroy, who are the most vocal Muslim intellectuals in favor of spiritual Islam in France. A careful examination of their writings reveals that post-modernism, French secularism, and religious freedom all support th…
The Sufi Doctrine of Man
Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī is a key Sufi master who made an extensive contribution to the tradition of commentary on Ibn ʿArabī’s teachings. He also played a role in the consolidation of the Akbarian sc
Making sense of the secular
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the challenges secularization theory faces in many areas. Particularly in Europe and Asia, questions have been raised about the effect of the resurge
The First Islamic Reviver
Investigating al-Ghazālī is a continuing concern within the field of Islamic studies. In particular, there is increasing scepticism about al-Ghazālī's self-portrayal as a Sufi and the extent of it
L'usage politique de l'islam
Lorsqu’il s’agit d’étudier les rapports des pays arabes à la mondialisation, il est nécessaire d’évoquer l’islam. En tant que facteur local, la symbolique islamique offre des ressources de légitimation au pouvoir. Le cas marocain illustre bien la manière dont les rapports existant entre le Makhzen et le répertoire religieux (Amīr al-Mu’minīne, la bayca , la chérifibilité... ) font de l’introduction de la modernité un simple espace virtuel et fonc…
International Symposium on Mullā Khusraw (18-20 November 2011, Bursa-Turkey)
First paragraph:Mullā Khusraw (d. 885/1480), one of the earliest prominent Ot-toman scholars, was the theme of the international symposium held in Bursa, Turkey, on 18-20 November 2011. In addition to thirty five Turkish participants from different Turkish universities, five foreign researchers represented Hungary, Italy, the United States and Cana-da. The purpose of the twenty two papers presented at the confer-ence was to bespeak attention to t…
Moral Agents and their Deserts
Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Muʿtazilite Ethics, by Sophia Vasalou (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), xiii + 252 pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-13145-0, $42 (hb) (First paragraph) The purpose of this book is to discuss the problem of the desert, istiḥqāq, in the views of the Baṣran Muʿtazilites from a philosophical perspective. To unfold the complexity of the issue, the author frequently shifts between kalām, Muslim legal th…
Ibn Qayyim al-Ǧawziyyah et sa Contribution à la Rhétorique Arabe
The Reform Debate
The renewal of Islamic legal hermeneutics has been a subject of controversy since the 19 th century. Muslim jurists and thinkers disagree on the extent to which the sources and the procedures of istidl l, legal reasoning, embodied in Islamic legal hermeneutics, l al-fiqh, should be restructured. This study deals with one of the most recent discussions on this question, which opposed the Tunisian A. al-Marz and the Syrian M. S. Rama n al-B . The a…
Dietrich Jung, Marie Juul Petersen et Sara Lei Sparre, Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities. Islam, Youth, and Social activism in the Middle East
À ce jour, il y a eu peu d’études sur l’action sociale en Islam. Nous connaissons bien la dimension politique de la société civile dans nombre de pays musulmans, mais moins ses aspects sociaux. D’une manière générale, la recherche sur les sociétés musulmanes a eu tendance à se concentrer sur le politique et le religieux plutôt que sur le social. En outre, la plupart des études dans le domaine de l’activisme social ont porté sur la question du gen…
Legal Knowledge by Application
IntroductionMany scholars assumed that Sufism and Islamic law are two inherently opposing modes of thought. However, a number of Islamicists have recently rejected such a common idea. In this regard, some researchers pointed out the conciliatory positions of traditionally anti-Sufi milieus. This is the case of the studies exploring how Sufism infiltrated Ḥanbalīsm, often said to be radically anti-Sufi.2 Others highlighted the interest of Sufi mas…
Making sense of the secular
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the challenges secularization theory faces in many areas. Particularly in Europe and Asia, questions have been raised about the effect of the resurge
Islam
Guy Monnot is a distinguished and well-known French scholar of Islamic studies, with particularly notable achievements in Islamic heresiography, theology and qur'anic studies. He belongs to the gol
The First Islamic Reviver
Investigating al-Ghazālī is a continuing concern within the field of Islamic studies. In particular, there is increasing scepticism about al-Ghazālī's self-portrayal as a Sufi and the extent of it
Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt
Compte-rendu: Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafīs, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection, Nahyan Fancy
Bariza Khiari, Le soufisme
Cet ouvrage paraît au bon moment. En Europe, et en France en particulier, il y a des attentes et des doutes par rapport à l’idée de réforme de l’islam et à sa capacité à accepter les axiomes de la modernité et de la laïcité. L’auteur est une sénatrice française (parti socialiste), avec une sensibilité soufie avérée. Khiari est d’origine algérienne et possède les deux nationalités, algérienne et française. Dans cet opuscule, elle n’a pas l’ambitio…
Georges Corm, Pensée et politique dans le monde arabe
Depuis les années 1980, la plupart des histoires de la pensée politique dans le monde arabe focalise l’attention sur la pensée islamiste ou islamique. Or, malgré leur popularité, les penseurs islamistes ou islamiques ne monopolisent pas le paysage académique et intellectuel arabe. Loin de là ; les penseurs libéraux-laïcs, socialistes-laïcs, modernistes, historicistes, marxistes ou nationalistes sont fort présents sur la scène intellectuelle arabe…
Right-wing populism in Europe
Extremist political ideologies and movements, whether religious or secular, owe a considerable deal of their political success to communication. In particular, populism makes the most of rhetoric i
The Sufi Doctrine of Man
Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī is a key Sufi master who made an extensive contribution to the tradition of commentary on Ibn ʿArabī’s teachings. He also played a role in the consolidation of the Akbarian sc
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition
Islamic Feminism in Kuwait
The so-called Islamic feminism is increasingly recognized as a significant movement of women's rights. This trend claims that Western feminism is but another form of Western hegemony and that Islam is not patriarchal by essence. Although Islamic feminists acknowledge feminism as a framework of action, they promote the specificity of gender issues, which in their minds, should stem from Islam. Islamic feminism adopts organizational tools of human …
Post-Islamism
Journal Article Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam Get access Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam. Edited by Asef Bayat. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 351pp. $35.00. Abdessamad Belhaj Abdessamad Belhaj MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious CultureSzeged, Hungary [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and St…
Ādāb Al-Baḥth Wa-Al-Munāẓara
Is it possible to invent a science that sets the rules for an ethical, logical and effective debate? Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (died in the first half of the 14th century), a logician and Ḥanafī jurist thought it possible. He undertook the task of developing a general theory of scientific discussion that had a tremendous success and impact on Muslim scholarship. Ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓara , as he called it, is a set of ethical and logical prin…
Le Coran par lui-même
This book, which is based on a PhD dissertation submitted in 2010 to IREMAM/Aix-Marseille University in France, is a literary and rhetorical analysis of the qur’anic text. It is interested in how t
Religion and State in Syria
A key aspect of modernity in Muslim societies is the degree to which it has shackled the clerics (‘ulamā’). The changes modernity have brought to modes of thought and action have forced religious scholars to adapt. Since the nineteenth century, tradition has occupied a marginal space in Muslim societies ruled by Western-modeled states. These transformations have undermined the authority of the clerics who enjoyed, for centuries, the role of the g…
Growing up Muslim
"Growing up Muslim: Muslim college students in America tell their life stories." Social Identities, 22(4), pp. 450–451
The Sunna and Its Status in Islamic Law
The Sunna and Its Status in Islamic Law: The Search for a Sound Hadith." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 28(3), pp. 401–402
Conflicted are the peacemakers
"Conflicted are the peacemakers: Israeli and Palestinian moderates and the death of Oslo." Social Identities, 23(1), pp. 120–121
“The Fall of The Western Family” Ṭāhā ‘Abd al-Raḥmān's Critical Islamic Ethics
Ṭāhā ‘Abd al-Raḥmān is a Moroccan Islamic philosopher who has authored, so far, more than 25 books, and considered to be a leading intellectual in Morocco and one of the most important philosophers in the Arab world. Yet, he is unfamiliar to the Western scholarship of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies which can be inferred from the rare academic publications in European forums dedicated to this philosopher. Ṭāhā ‘Abd al-Raḥmān offers a philosoph…
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