Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2660-2 (ISBN)
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.
Mirjam Kuenkler is Research Professor at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Her books include Female Religious Authority in Shiʿi Islam: Past and Present, Edinburgh University Press, 2021; A Secular Age Beyond the West, Cambridge University Press, 2018; Democracy and Islam in Indonesia, Columbia University Press, 2013; and the forthcoming The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Power, Institutions, and Prospects for Reform, Cambridge University Press, among others. She is a PI of the Iran Data Portal, co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Law and Religion, co-editor of the Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics, and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Islam in Asia (Brill), the Digest of Middle East Studies (Wiley), the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley), and Iranian Studies (Cambridge). In 2023, Künkler was elected President of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS). Devin Stewart is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Emory University. He has published numerous journal articles, including in Islamic Law and Society, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies and Journal of Qur’anic Studies.
List of Tables and Figures
Note on Transliteration
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction – Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam: Past and Present
Mirjam Künkler and Devin J. Stewart
2. Forgotten Histories of Female Religious Authority in Islam
Mirjam Künkler
3. Umm Salama: A Female Authority Legitimating the Authorities
Yasmin Amin
4. Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima’s Khuṭba 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 among Men’: Imāmī Arguments against (and for) Women Judges
Robert Gleave
7. Husniyya’s Debate at the Court of Harun al-Rashid: Sectarian Polemics and Female Religious Authority
Devin J. 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 Mujtahidāt: 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 (Wakī la) of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
Raffaele Mauriello
12. The ‘Ā limāt 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
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-2660-3 / 1474426603 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-2660-2 / 9781474426602 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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