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).ContributorsGianfranco 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.

"The work is a ground-breaking tour de force that has advanced knowledge and scholarship on the historical and missionary Prophet to the realm of an enduring world of intellectual and evolving cosmos of permanent realism. A fertile area of research has now been exposed such that this and other volumes in the series have become an indispensable library item for all those interested in knowing more about the Prophet of Islam in his sublimity and the society’s representation of him, whatever the sectarian or cultural diversity, both in temporal and spatial continuum. No library or institution should be without them." -Amidu Olalekan Sanni, The Muslim World Book Review , 44:1, 2023.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionRachida Chih, David Jordan, and Stefan ReichmuthPart 1: Empires and Revolutions1 Pietas OttomanicaThe House of Osman and the Prophet MuḥammadGottfried Hagen2 Model, Not IdolThe Recasting of the Image of Muḥammad in Mukhtaṣar sīrat al-rasūl by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792)Martin Riexinger3 The Prophet in a Muslim Age of Revolutions (ca. 1775–1850)Stefan ReichmuthPart 2: Prophetic Descent and Authority4 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 SoulamiEnglish Summary of Chapter 4Stefan Reichmuth5 Siyāda and Imamate in Eighteenth-Century IndiaThe Ṭarīqa Muḥammadiyya Khāliṣa and the Sunnī–Shīʿī Sectarian ConflictSoraya Khodamoradi6 Vérification des généalogies (taḥqīq al-ansāb) et centralité égyptienneLe Syndicat des descendants du Prophète (niqābat al-ashrāf) à l’époque contemporaineCatherine Mayeur-JaouenPart 3: Modern Nation-States and Ideologies7 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 Soler8 The Place and Functions of the Figure of the Prophet in Turkish School Textbooks and General Religious TeachingCitizenship Models and the Legitimisation of the StateDilek Sarmis9 The Prophet, His Mevlud, and the Building of the Albanian Nation-StateGianfranco Bria10 The Prophet, Law, and Constitution in Pakistani SocietyJamal Malik11 “So Let Today Be All the Arabs Muḥammad”The Prophet in the Discourse of the Iraqi Baʿth PartyDavid Jordanpart 4: Mobilisation, Empowerment, and Social Reform12 The Modern ProphetRashīd Riḍā’s Construction of Muḥammad as Religious and Social ReformerFlorian Zemmin13 Religious Revival (tajdīd) and Politics in Contemporary Morocco“The Prophetic Path” of Shaykh Abdessalam Yassine (d. 2012)Rachida Chih14 For the Love of Prophet MuḥammadReligious Devotion and Political Mobilisation among the Barelwis of PakistanAlix Philippon15 Taking Lessons from the Prophet in Times of WarMuḥammadan Images during the Afghan Resistance (ca. 1978–92)Jan-Peter Hartung16 al-Dawla al-nabawiyyaAppropriating the Prophet’s Authority in the Islamic State’s MediaChristoph GüntherIndex