British Muslims Caught Amidst FOGs—A Discourse Analysis of Religious Advice and Authority

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This paper discusses the symbolic capital found within Islamic documents that were circulated in UK during COVID-19 outbreak. Specifically, work explores “fatwas” and “other” similar as well “guidance” (referred to FOGs) disseminated March–April 2020 on internet social media platforms for British Muslim consumption. We confine our materials FOGs produced only English. Our study takes its cue from notion existence of a variety created sense foggy ambiguity Muslims matters religious practice. From linguistic angle, seeks identify (a) underlying reasons behind titling documents; (b) construction discourses documents. corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis (CA-CDA) noticeable patterns hold fatwa register. also producers imitate register an attempt strengthen their Accordingly, fatwas act most authoritative are written by senior representatives community, whereas guidance be health matters. The findings raise questions regarding manner which instruction may emergency situations. Based this study, call standardisation unification these diverse sometimes contradicting publications worth considering.

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عنوان ژورنال: Religions

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2077-1444']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12020140