Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam: Past and Present - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1474426603 ISBN 13: 9781474426602

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2020

Riassunto

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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L'autore

Mirjam Künkler is Senior Research Fellow at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.She is co-editor, with Alfred Stepan, of Indonesia, Islam and Democracy (2013).

Devin Stewart is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Emory University.

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• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1474426603
• ISBN 13: 9781474426602
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 399
• Redattore: Knkler Mirjam, Stewart Devin J.