Figures
5.1 Sayyida Polārak’s living room 206
5.2 Women venerators at Martyr Aḥmad Polārak’s tomb in Behesht-e Zahrāʾ cemetery 216
8.1 Couverture de l’ouvrage de Yacoub Roty, L’exemple du Prophète, série « Amin et Amina », n°5, Paris, éditions Ennour, 2003 284
8.2 Le Prophète raconté aux enfants, Lyon, éditions Tawhid, 2016 286
8.3 Couverture du DVD du film « Le Message », version sous-titrée en français, Tarek Films Distributions, 1976 289
8.4 Couverture du DVD « Muhammad. Le dernier Prophète », Richard Crest Animation, 2004 291
8.5 Manuel d’enseignement des bases d’islam, « Arc en ciel », volume 6, Bruxelles, édition Al Hadith, 2010 297
8.6 « Je suis Charlie », création du graphiste Joachim Roncin (janvier 2015) en hommage en victimes de l’attentat contre Charlie Hebdo 314
8.7 Détournement de « Je suis Charlie » par des internautes musulmans 315
9.1 Map of North Rhine-Westphalia, with the core region of the Ruhr area, which also includes the majority of the hometowns of the interview partners, marked in light purple 326
13.1 In a street in the Barbīr district a Mashārīʿiyyīn banner reads “Muḥammad nūruhu al-hādī min al-ẓulam (Muḥammad, his light guides [one] in darkness)” 458
13.2 Banners featuring the Mashārīʿiyyīn logo, in the streets of Barbīr. The banner at the top of the image reads “Maʿan fī ḥubbi Muḥammad (Together in Muḥammad’s love)”; on the inflatable arch the full name of the association Jamʿiyyat al-Mashārīʿ al-Khayriyya al-Islāmiyya (Association for Islamic Charitable Projects) is printed 459
13.3 Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥararī. Screenshot from the Qamar Beyrūt (Beirut Moon) YouTube clip, a mourning song composed soon after the death of Ḥararī 461
13.4 Shaykh al-Ḥararī and Nizār al-Ḥalabī. Screenshot from a video clip on the assassination of Nizār al-Ḥalabī. The clip bears the accusatory title “Shaykh Nizār al-Ḥalabī assassinated by the Wahhābīs” 464
13.5 A child in an Ottoman costume, wearing a badge that features the Mashārīʿiyyīn logo 472
13.6 A young woman wearing a veil printed with the Mashārīʿiyyīn logo 473
13.7 A flat banner on which one can read “Muḥammad ḥubbuka yajmaʿunā (Muḥammad, your love brings us together)” 474
13.8 The procession displaying the “Prophetic hair” during 2018. The banner in the background reads “the noble Prophetic hair”. Screenshot from the Facebook page of the al-Walāʾ al-Waṭanī party 477
13.9 In the Maktabat Jār al-Maqām bookshop, the poster featuring Shaykh Jamīl Ḥalīm putting on a turban and a tunic that were the Prophet’s in the Topkapi Palace. Beirut, 2019 479
13.10 A woman puts the relic of Prophetic hair in contact with a rosary at Maktabat Jār al-Maqām bookshop. Beirut, 2019 481
Tables
3.1 Elevation and intimacy as performative poles of the relation to the Prophet 124
9.1 Ethnic background of student participants (11 female, 3 male) 327
9.2 Ethnic background of Muslim interview partners (11 female, 6 male) 327
9.3 Preferences for the names of the Prophet 345