Explanation
Ali is mentioned among the central figures that furnish the value-laden and authoritative site in Islamic religious memory. His presence here is not an independent biography, but part of the symbolic structure to which legitimacy and religious ranks are assigned.
Referenced from
- Islamizing knowledge or studying Islam
- Myth is mixed with history
- Fundamentalism was linked to Arabization
- Contemporary Islam is formed between censorship, mediation, and the suspension of epistemic modernity
- Close reading of texts is not enough to produce fundamentalism
- Distinguishing between the supreme and ordinary speech
- Modernity did not end religion
- Religion and ideology are alike in producing legitimacy and obedience
- Religion produces meaning and legitimacy through orthodoxy and the imaginary
- Obedience to authority arises from internalizing supreme majesty
- Human reason after the occultation
- Reason serves transcendent texts
- The social imaginary makes history when the supreme reference is absent
- Women are affected by multiple structures
- Political legitimacy needs spiritual backing
- The spread of Arabization brought the Kabyles closer to the texts
- The decline of state centrality with globalization
- Defining epistemic paradigms
- Studying the three religions is non-comparative
- The role of women in critical research
- The early period of Islam is the reference point for the value system
- The ambiguity of the public and private spheres reflects the unresolved relationship between religion and the state
- The hegemony of neoliberalism and technical reason
- The status of women in Islamic contexts