The European Imam: A Nationalized Religious Authority

Hashas, Mohammed

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“…This fits within a development in which imams fulfill tasks because the institutions that provide these in the country of origin are lacking. 16 , 18 , 43 …”

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Turkish imams and their role in decision-making in palliative care: A Directed Content and Narrative analysis

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Background: Muslims are the largest religious minority in Europe. When confronted with life-threatening illness, they turn to their local imams for religious guidance. Aim: To gain knowledge about how imams shape their roles in decision-making in palliative care. Design: Direct Content Analysis through a typology of imam roles. To explore motives, this was complemented by Narrative Analysis. Setting/Participants: Ten Turkish imams working in the Netherlands, with experience in guiding congregants in palliative care. Results: The roles of Jurist, Exegete, Missionary, Advisor and Ritual Guide were identified. Three narratives emerged: Hope can work miracles, Responsibility needs to be shared, and Mask your grief. Participants urged patients not to consent to withholding or terminating treatment but to search for a cure, since this might be rewarded with miraculous healing. When giving consent seemed unavoidable, the fear of being held responsible by God for wrongful death was often managed by requesting fatwa from committees of religious experts. Relatives were urged to hide their grief from dying patients so they would not lose hope in God. Conclusion: Imams urge patients’ relatives to show faith in God by seeking maximum treatment. This attitude is motivated by the fear that all Muslims involved will be held accountable by God for questioning His omnipotence to heal. Therefore, doctors may be urged to offer treatment that contradicts medical standards for good palliative care. To bridge this gap, tailor-made palliative care should be developed in collaboration with imams. Future research might include imams of other Muslim organizations.

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“…This fits within a development in which imams fulfill tasks because the institutions that provide these in the country of origin are lacking. 16 , 18 , 43 …”

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confidence: 99%

Turkish imams and their role in decision-making in palliative care: A Directed Content and Narrative analysis

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“…Similar narratives are played out in China, Israel, Myanmar, and India. Some countries have initiated schemes to train Imams domestically and only allow the employment of graduates from Western Islamic Studies university programs (Groeninck & Boender 2020;Hashas 2018;Schmid 2020).…”

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Covid-19, Congregational Worship, and Contestation over 'Correct' Islam in South Africa

Vahed

2021

J. Study Relig.

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In response to the global Coronavirus pandemic, South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national lockdown on March 26, 2020, which suspended, among other things, congregational worship. A group of Muslims made an urgent court application for permission to pray in mosques, which was dismissed on April 30, 2020, with the judiciary weighing in on the side of the public health good. This struggle over congregational prayers brought into the open, differences among Muslims in South Africa that have been simmering for several decades and raised questions as to how to balance the post-apartheid Constitution's accommodation of religious practices with the needs of a secular state1. Conversely, what should Muslims do when they are required to follow the secular rules of a non-Muslim country that contradict their obligations to the tenets of their faith? The court case underlined the deep divides amongst Muslims and the changing structures of authority. In the absence of a central doctrinal authority the Ulama terrain is highly competitive and fraught with antagonistic doctrinal differences. It remains to be seen whether these divisions will boil over into physical confrontation among Muslims, and, with trust in the state dissipating, how Muslims will manage their relationship with the secular state.

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The European Imam: A Nationalized Religious Authority

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Turkish imams and their role in decision-making in palliative care: A Directed Content and Narrative analysis

Turkish imams and their role in decision-making in palliative care: A Directed Content and Narrative analysis

Covid-19, Congregational Worship, and Contestation over 'Correct' Islam in South Africa

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