The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam

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 rijāl al-ṭarīqa al-naqshbandīya: The Sufi Resistance of the Former Baʿth 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.

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 Muḥammad

 Gottfried Hagen



2 Model, Not Idol

 The Recasting of the Image of Muḥammad in Mukhtaṣar sīrat al-rasūl by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (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 Mafhūm al-niqāba bayna al-tawjīh al-sharʿī wa-l-ṣayrūra al-tārīkhiyya fī l-Maghrib al-Aqṣā (The Concept of the Niqāba between Legal Norm and Historical Development in Morocco)

 Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami



English Summary of Chapter 4

 Stefan Reichmuth

5 Siyāda and Imamate in Eighteenth-Century India

 The Ṭarīqa Muḥammadiyya Khāliṣa and the Sunnī–Shīʿī Sectarian Conflict

 Soraya Khodamoradi



6 Vérification des généalogies (taḥqīq al-ansāb) et centralité égyptienne

 Le Syndicat des descendants du Prophète (niqābat al-ashrāf) 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 Bandalī Jawzī (1871-1942)

 Min tārīkh al-ḥarakāt al-fikriyya fī l-islām (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 Muḥammad”

 The Prophet in the Discourse of the Iraqi Baʿth Party

 David Jordan



part 4: Mobilisation, Empowerment, and Social Reform

12 The Modern Prophet

 Rashīd Riḍā’s Construction of Muḥammad as Religious and Social Reformer

 Florian Zemmin



13 Religious Revival (tajdīd) and Politics in Contemporary Morocco

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

 Rachida Chih



14 For the Love of Prophet Muḥammad

 Religious Devotion and Political Mobilisation among the Barelwis of Pakistan

 Alix Philippon



15 Taking Lessons from the Prophet in Times of War

 Muḥammadan 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