A Rhetorical Examination of the Fatwā: Religion as an Instrument for Power, Prestige, and Political Gains in the Islamic World
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Aljahli
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Gonzalez, Alberto; Lengel, Lara
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Bowling Green State University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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144
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Frey, Christopher; Gorsevski, Ellen
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-31706-0
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Media and Communication
Body granting the degree
Bowling Green State University
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2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation examines the fatwā, an Islamic religious ruling and scholarly opinion on matters of Islamic law, and how fatwā is used as cultural, political and legal rhetoric. It illustrates how rhetoric of ulamā [scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law], mutakallimun [theologians], muftis [group of theologians or canon lawyers], qadis [judges], professors, and Sheikh al Islam [the highest-level state religious official], play a role in culture and communication in the Islamic world to gain political, social, cultural, and spiritual control.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communication; Rhetoric
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Communication and the arts;Culture;Fatwa;Islamic law;Middle East and North Africa;Political communication;Political rhetoric