Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2661-9 (ISBN)
When we dissect Islamic religious authority into its various manifestations – leading prayer, preaching, issuing fatwas, transmitting hadith, judging in court, shaping the Islamic scholarly tradition – nuances emerge that question the conventional accounts of this authority that proceed from the assumption that it is male. This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Islamic world, allows for women’s role to be compared across time and space. This allows for the formation of hypotheses regarding which conditions and developments (theological, jurisprudential, social, economic, political) enhanced or stifled female religious authority in Shi’i 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.
IntroductionMirjam Künkler and Devin Stewart
Forgotten Histories of Female Religious Authority in IslamMirjam Künkler, SCAS
Umm Salamah: A Female Authority Legitimating the AuthoritiesYasmin Amin, University of Exeter
Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima as Inheritor of Her Father’s LegacyAlyssa Gabbay, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Female Authority in the Times of the Shi‘i ImamsLiyakat Takim, McMaster University, Canada
“She should not raise her voice when amongst men”: Imāmī arguments against (and for) women judgesRobert Gleave, University of Exeter
Husniyyah’s Debate at the Court of Harun al-Rashid: Sectarian Polemics and Female Religious Authority Devin Stewart, Emory University
Layli as Queen of Heaven by Muhammadi of Herat, c. 1565Michael Barry, American University of Afghanistan
Princesses, Patronage, and the Production of Knowledge in Safavid IranYusuf Ünal, Emory University
The Lives of Two Mujtahidahs: Female Religious Authority in 20th Century IranMirjam Künkler, SCAS, and Roja Fazaeli, Trinity College Dublin
The "Other Half of the Mission": Amina Bint al-Hudà (al-Sadr) as Wakil for Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr?Raffaele Mauriello, Allameh Tabataba'i University
Speaking in the Name of Zaynab: Female Shi‘i Religious Authority in SyriaEdith Szanto, University of Alabama
Women’s Religious Seminaries in Iran: A Diversified System Despite State Attempts at Unification and StandardizationMaryam Rutner, NYU
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.05.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-2661-1 / 1474426611 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-2661-9 / 9781474426619 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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