Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam : : Past and Present /

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

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, t...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations
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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

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