The Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Edited by Bettina Gräf and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen

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July, 2009
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70070-2
$35.00

"Still, 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

"The Global Mufti offers 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, University of Birmingham

"This is to the first time a non-Muslim publication has focused solely on Yusuf al-Qaradawi as a theologian and Muslim leader. The Global Mufti has strong potential to become a modern classic in the study of contemporary Islam." — Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg

Related Subjects

• Islam
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Bettina Gräf 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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