Female religious authority in shi'i islam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Künkler, Mirjam, 1977- editor.

Stewart, Devin J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shiite women.

Women in Islam.

Authority--Religious aspects--Islam.

Authority.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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 shaping the Islamic scholarly tradition-nuances emerge that hint at the presence of women in the performance of some of these functions. This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Shi'i 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 Shi'i Islam.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-4744-2663-8

1-4744-2662-X

OCLC:

1247204090