Florence Bergeaud-Blacker is a researcher at the CNRS and at the Group Societies, Religions, Secularism of the University of Paris sciences and letters. She has notably published
The Halal Market or the Invention of a Tradition
(Seuil, 2017).
LE FIGARO. - Is there a Muslim clergy for Sunni Islam present in France?
Florence BERGEAUD-BLACKLER. -
To understand the criteria for recruiting imams, several factors must be taken into account that distinguish Islam in France from other established religions.
The relatively recent nature of the establishment of Islam explains why there is no Muslim heritage, no traditional training institutions, no social recognition of the imam.
He is wrongly confused with the priest, the pastor or the rabbi.
Sunni Islam has not instituted a clergy (unlike Shia Islam), each believer is therefore in theory his own minister of worship.
Florence Bergeaud Blacker
However, and this is another factor to be taken into account, Sunni Islam has not established a clergy (unlike Shiite Islam), each believer is therefore in theory his own minister of worship.
The state has not negotiated an agreement with…
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