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Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

by Bettina Graf (Editor), Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Editor) Format: Paperback
4.5 out of 5 stars (2)
A widely respected legal scholar, Islamist activist, and renowned host of al-Jazeera's most popular religious program, "Sharia and Life", Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an extremely controversial figure of contemporary Islamism. When he was a young man, Qaradawi attended a lecture by Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and immediately joined the organization's youth wing. After earning his degree in theology at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Qaradawi settled in Qatar, where he played a pivotal role in establishing a system of Islamic higher education. When the Muslim Brotherhood was forced underground in the 1960s, Qaradawi eschewed a formal position with the movement, opting instead to pursue a career as a major writer and ideologist of contemporary Islamist thought. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Qaradawi become one of a handful of Islamist ulama (Muslim scholars) to be accepted as an authority on doctrinal and political matters, both by Islamists and within the wider Islamic resurgence. Bettina Graf and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen provide the first book-length treatment of Yusuf al-Qaradawi in English. Since the 1990s, Qaradawi has cleverly exploited new media to reach a global audience. He was one of the first Sunni scholars to launch his own Web site and is heavily involved with Islam Online. Having just celebrated the ten year anniversary of "Sharia and Life", Qaradawi is unquestionably the most important Sunni religious figure in the world today, and these essays initiate readers into his immensely influential speeches and thought.
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  1. ISBN-10
    1850659397
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1850659396
  3. Publisher
    C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
  4. Publication date
    1 Nov. 2008
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    13.6 x 1.7 x 21.8 cm
  7. Print length
    256 pages
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A fascinating collection of essays that covers all the main dimensions of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, providing well-documented and carefully considered evaluations of key dimensions of Qaradawi's activities and thinking and the more theoretical dimension of his methodology. -- Jorgen S. Nielsen

The Global Mufti has the potential to become a modern classic in the study of contemporary Islam. -- Goran Larsson

this is an essential book for anyone interested understanding contemporary Islam and the Muslim world. And while the book may downplay some of the most controversial of Qaradawi's views, these are too often the only aspects of his thought that are discussed in the West. The editors have therefore done a great service in bringing other, less discussed, yet probably more important issues into focus. ― New Republic

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Bettina Graf is an academic assistant to the director at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) in Berlin. She is currently completing her Ph.D. on the production and adaptation of fatwas in the era of electronic media with reference to the works of Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen is the director of the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute in Cairo and the former head of the academic program at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 Nov. 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1850659397
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1850659396
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 362 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.6 x 1.7 x 21.8 cm
  • Best Sellers Rank: 4,211,591 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars (2)

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    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2023
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