Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam : : Past and Present / / ed. by Mirjam Künkler, Devin J. Stewart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Amin, Yasmin,; Barry, Michael,; Fazaeli, Roja,; Gabbay, Alyssa,; Gleave, Robert,; Künkler, Mirjam,; Mauriello, Raffaele,; Rutner, Maryam,; Stewart, Devin J.,; Szanto, Edith,; Takim, Liyakat,; Ünal, Yusuf,
• HerausgeberIn: Künkler, Mirjam,; Stewart, Devin J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations

13 case studies of women exercising religious authority in Shiʿi Islam from the classical period to the presentIslamic religious authority is conventionally understood to be an exclusively male purview. Yet when dissected into its various manifestations – leading prayer, preaching, issuing fatwas, transmitting hadith, judging in court, teaching law, theology, and other Islamic sciences and generally shaping the Islamic scholarly tradition – nuances emerge that hint at the presence of women in the performance of some of these functions. This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Shiʿi Islamic world, reflects on the roles that women have played in exercising religious authority across time and space. Comparative reflection on the case studies allows for the formulation of hypotheses regarding the conditions and developments – whether theological, jurisprudential, social, economic, or political – that enhanced or stifled the flourishing of female religious authority in Shiʿi Islam.Key FeaturesFeatures case studies of women exercising religious authority, including hadith transmitters, jurists, scholars of religion, women acting as representative for a leading ayatollah and women judgesAddresses the classical, medieval and modern periodsBrings together scholars from Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, History and Art HistoryProvides insight into contemporary debates about female religious authority in IslamQuestions assumptions about the inherently progressive agenda of female religious authoritiesContributorsYasmin Amin, University of ExeterMichael Barry, American University of AfghanistanAlyssa Gabbay, University of North Carolina at GreensboroRobert Gleave, University of ExeterMirjam Künkler, Swedish Collegium for Advanced StudyRaffaele Mauriello, Allameh Tabataba'i UniversityMaryam Rutner, New York UniversityDevin Stewart, Emory UniversityEdith Szanto, University of AlabamaLiyakat Takim, McMaster UniversityYusuf Ünal, Emory University

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- Note on Transliteration -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Female Religious Authority in Shi‘i Islam : Past and Present -- CHAPTER 2 FORGOTTEN HISTORIES OF FEMALE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN ISLAM -- CHAPTER 3 UMM SALAMA: A FEMALE AUTHORITY LEGITIMATING THE AUTHORITIES -- CHAPTER 4 HEIRESS TO THE PROPHET: FATIMA’S KHUṬBA AS AN EARLY CASE OF FEMALE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN ISLAM -- CHAPTER 5 FEMALE AUTHORITY IN THE TIMES OF THE SHI‘I IMAMS -- CHAPTER 6 ‘SHE SHOULD NOT RAISE HER VOICE WHEN AMONG MEN’: IMĀMĪ ARGUMENTS AGAINST (AND FOR) WOMEN JUDGES -- CHAPTER 7 HUSNIYYA’S DEBATE AT THE COURT OF HARUN AL-RASHID: SECTARIAN POLEMICS AND FEMALE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY -- CHAPTER 8 LAYLI AS QUEEN OF HEAVEN BY MUHAMMADI OF HERAT, C. 1565 -- CHAPTER 9 PRINCESSES, PATRONAGE AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN SAFAVID IRAN* -- CHAPTER 10 THE LIVES OF TWO MUJTAHIDĀT: FEMALE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRAN -- CHAPTER 11 THE OTHER HALF OF THE MISSION: AMINA ‘BINT AL-HUDA’ AS A REPRESENTATIVE (WAKĪLA) OF MUHAMMAD BAQIR AL-SADR -- CHAPTER 12 THE ‘ĀLIMĀT OF SAYYIDA ZAYNAB: FEMALE SHI‘I RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN A SYRIAN SEMINARY -- CHAPTER 13 WOMEN’S RELIGIOUS SEMINARIES IN IRAN: A DIVERSIFIED SYSTEM DESPITE STATE ATTEMPTS AT UNIFICATION AND STANDARDISATION -- INDEX