State-Mediated Islamic Normativity: The Role of the Supreme Council of ‘Ulama in Morocco

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https://doi.org/10.66277/rir.1.2.374

Keywords:

State-Mediated Islamic Normativity, Supreme Council of ‘Ulama, Ijtihād, Interlegality, Morocco, Islamic Law

Abstract

This article examines how Islamic normativity is produced and mediated through state institutions in contemporary Morocco, focusing on the Supreme Council of ʿUlamāʾ (SCU). While scholarship on Islamic law under the modern nation-state has primarily examined the positivization of fiqh, less attention has been given to Islamic norms authorized by state institutions that remain partly or entirely outside positive law. Using qualitative documentary and doctrinal analysis of constitutional provisions, royal dahirs, legislation, official fatwas, regulatory instruments, and institutional documents, the article develops a threefold typology of state-mediated Islamic normativity. First, Islamic Positive Law is illustrated by the SCU’s involvement in family-law reform through state-mediated ijtihād, whereby religious reasoning contributes to legally binding rules. Second, State-Institutionalized Islamic Infra-Law is exemplified by official fatwas on zakāt, which carry institutional religious authority without direct legal enforceability. Third, State-Institutionalized Voluntary Islamic Normativity is illustrated by participatory finance, where voluntary adherence to a sharīʿa-compliant framework generates legally structured consequences once adopted. These configurations reveal that state involvement does not simply absorb Islamic norms into a unified legal order or eliminate normative plurality. Instead, it redistributes Islamic normativity across varying degrees of legal force, institutional authority, and voluntariness. The article conceptualizes this arrangement as state-mediated interlegality, arguing that interlegality emerges not only through encounters between relatively autonomous normative orders but also through differentiated forms of norm production and authorization within state institutions. This perspective extends socio-legal debates on Islamic law by identifying institutional differentiation, rather than positivization alone, as a central mechanism of contemporary normative transformation.

Author Biography

  • Dr. Yannis Mahil, GISTU University, Gaziantep, Türkiye

    Yannis Mahil is a french scholar, currently Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at GISTU University (Türkiye). He holds a PhD in Law and Islamic Studies from the University of Strasbourg (France).

    His research focuses primarily on contemporary Islamic law, particularly the evolution of its hermeneutical mechanisms and epistemological framework. He examines the methodological transformations and processes of renewal that have shaped fiqh in the modern period.

    In 2022–2023, he was also a Visiting Researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), where his work focused on the history of African American Muslims.

    He is the author of Ijtihād collectif: l’évolution du droit musulman (2024), in which he analyzes the contemporary emergence of collective ijtihād as a vehicle for the renewal of the practical, theoretical, and hermeneutical foundations of Islamic law.

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State-Mediated Islamic Normativity: The Role of the Supreme Council of ‘Ulama in Morocco. (2026). Reciprocal: Interlegality Review, 1(2), 171-202. https://doi.org/10.66277/rir.1.2.374