Islam as Power: Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah - Paperback

by Bianka Speidl (Author)

Providing an in-depth and extensive analysis of the concept of power as articulated by Muhammad Fadlallah, this case study analyses the systemic conceptualization of power and his argumentation of sacralizing Islamised power. The volume also offers a quick overview of how the concept was understood and articulated by other Shi‛ite jurists.

Author Biography

Bianka Speidl is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Pázmány Péter Catholic

University, Hungary. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic

Studies at the University of Exeter. She spent academic years in Tunisia, Syria,

Italy, and Lebanon. Between 2013-2019 she was a research fellow in the Research

Group of Contemporary Religious Culture pertaining to the Hungarian Academy

of Sciences and the University of Szeged, Hungary.