La chaire et l'algorithme. Recomposition de l'autorité islamique en Europe à l'ère des plateformes

This article examines how Islamic religious authority is reconfigured on dig-ital platforms in French-speaking Europe. Drawing on a comparative corpus of YouTube and Instagram content produced by three contrasting religious figures, it argues that platforms do not replace established forms of legiti-macy but reshape the public conditions in which authority becomes visible and credible. The analysis focuses on three dynamics: metrics as indicators of recognition, normative prescriptions reformulated in attention-oriented formats, and the symbolic platform economy through which visibility and public recognition may be converted into resources of legitimation. The find-ings show that online religious authority does not follow a single model, but is negotiated through differentiated regimes of presence and visibility.