The case of his father's tapes is suffused with controversy over religious legitimacy, legal authority and intellectual property.

Kiluanji lacked political and religious legitimacy in the eyes of many Kimbundu who revolted against the new establishment with encouragement from Nzinga.

He is also an anti-royalist, asserting the Saudi government has lost its religious legitimacy.

During the 14th century, the Luba Kingdom in southeast Congo came about under a king whose political authority came from religious spiritual legitimacy.

Sections of the ulema (scholars of Islamic jurisprudence) provide religious legitimacy to caste with the help of the concept of kafa'a.

To navigate the course, the house of Saud has always coupled its bent for modernization with an umbrella of religious legitimacy kept firmly over its head.

As a result of the tobacco movement, the ulema firmly established not only their religious legitimacy but also their political legitimacy.

By trying to associate the Bagadou with the Kagaw, it is merely regarded as attempting to bestow religious legitimacy to the Bagadous.

Otherwise, as I have already said, a government not respecting people's vote has no religious or political legitimacy.

We denounce the loose use of the term 'sharia' to give a false religious legitimacy to patriarchal interpretations of religion, as well as to patriarchal traditions.