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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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List of Tables and Figures
Note on Transliteration
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction - Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam: Past and Present
Mirjam Künkler and Devin J. Stewart
2. Forgotten Histories of Female Religious Authority in Islam
Mirjam Künkler
3. Umm Salama: A Female Authority Legitimating the Authorities
Yasmin Amin
4. Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima's Khuṭba as an Early Case of Female Religious Authority in Islam Alyssa Gabbay
5. Female Authority in the Times of the Shi'i Imams
Liyakat Takim
6. 'She Should Not Raise Her Voice When among Men': Imāmī Arguments against (and for) Women Judges
Robert Gleave
7. Husniyya's Debate at the Court of Harun al-Rashid: Sectarian Polemics and Female Religious Authority
Devin J. Stewart
8. Layli as Queen of Heaven by Muhammadi of Herat, c. 1565
Michael Barry
9. Princesses, Patronage and the Production of Knowledge in Safavid Iran
Yusuf Ünal
10. The Lives of Two Mujtahidāt: Female Religious Authority in Twentieth-century Iran
Mirjam Künkler and Roja Fazaeli
11. The Other Half of the Mission: Amina 'Bint al-Huda' as a Representative (Wakī la) of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
Raffaele Mauriello
12. The 'Ā limāt of Sayyida Zaynab: Female Shi'i Religious Authority in a Syrian Seminary
Edith Szanto
13. Women's Religious Seminaries in Iran: A Diversified System Despite State Attempts at Unification and Standardisation
Maryam Rutner
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