The most learned of the Shiʻa : the institution of the Marjaʻ taqlid / edited Linda S. Walbridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walbridge, Linda S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murjiʾah.

Murjiʼah.

Taqlīd.

Authority--Religious aspects--Islam.

Authority.

Shīʻah--Doctrines.

Shīʻah.

Physical Description:

xii, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This collection of essays explores the nature of political and religious leadership in Shi'ism. Contributors look at a variety of critical historical periods--from medieval to modern--to reveal the social, political, and theological factors that have influenced the development of Shi'ite leadership.

Contents:

Introduction: Shiʻism and authority / Linda S. Walbridge.

The life of an ʻAlim / Sayyid Niʻmatuʾllah Al-Jazaʾiri, translation by E.G. Browne.

The Imam's return: messianic leadership in late medieval Shiʻism / Shahzad Bashir.

Fayd al-Kashani and the rejection of the clergy/state alliance: friday prayer a politics in the Safavid period / Andrew J. Newman.

The economic role of the Ulama in Qajar Persia / Willem Floor.

Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsaʾi on the sources of religious authority / Juan R.I. Cole.

Fatima's religious authority in an early work by the Bab / Toff Lawson.

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr: the search for new foundations / John Walbridge.

Baqir al-Sadr's quest for the Marjaʻiya / Talib Aziz.

ʻAlima Bint al-Huda, women's advocate ? Joyce Wiley.

The fundamental problem in the clerical establishment / Morteza Motahari; Farhad Arshad, translator; Hamid Dabashi, introduction.

Analysis of Khomeini's proofs for al-Wilaya al-Mutlaqa (comprehensive authority) of the jurist / Talib Aziz.

The portrayal of an academic rivalry: Najaf and Qum in the writings and speeches of Khomeini, 1964-78 / Devin J, Stewart.

The counterreformation: becoming a Marjaʻ in the modern world / Linda S. Walbridge.

The Marjaʻ and the survival of a community: the Shiʻa of Medina / Yousif al-Khoei.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019513799X

OCLC:

43561939