Female religious authority in Shiʻi Islam : past and present /
"Islamic 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 sha...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2021]
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Mục lục:
- 1. Introduction / Mirjam Künkler and Devin Stewart
- 2. Forgotten histories of female religious authority in Islam / Mirjam Künkler
- 3. Umm Salamah : A female authority legitimating the authorities / Yasmin Amin
- 4. Heiress to the Prophet : Fatima's khutba as an early case of female religious authority in Islam / Alyssa Gabbay
- 5. Female authority in the times of the Shi‘i Imams / Liyakat Takim
- 6. "She should not raise her voice when amongst men" : Imāmī arguments against (and for) women judges / Robert Gleave
- 7. Husniyyah's debate at the court of Harun al-Rashid : Sectarian polemics and female religious authority / Devin Stewart
- 8. Layli as Queen of Heaven by Muhammadi of Herat, c. 1565 / Michael Barry
- 9. Princesses, patronage, and the production of knowledge in Safavid Iran / Yusuf Ünal
- 10. The lives of two mujtahidat : Female religious authority in twentieth-century Iran / Mirjam Künkler and Roja Fazaeli
- 11. The other half of the mission : Amina 'Bint al-Huda' as a representative (Wakila) of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr / Raffaele Mauriello
- 12. The Alimat of Sayyida Zaynab : Female Shi‘i religious authority in a Syrian seminary / Edith Szanto
- 13. Women's religious seminaries in Iran : A diversified system despite state attempts at unification and standardisation / Maryam Rutner.