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Female religious authority in Shi'i Islam : past and present

Kunkler, Mirjam(Edited by)Stewart, Devin J.(Edited by)
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Case studies of women exercising religious authority in Shi?i Islam from the classical period to the 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 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.

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Edinburgh University Press
1474426603 / 9781474426602
Hardback
31/07/2020
United Kingdom
English
1 volume : illustrations (black and white)
24 cm
Published in Scotland.