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Reflects on women participating in Islamic scholarly traditions from the classical period to the presentWhen we dissect Islamic religious authority into its various manifestations - leading prayer, preaching, issuing fatwas, transmitting hadith, judging in court, shaping the Islamic scholarly tradition - nuances emerge that question the conventional accounts of this authority that proceed from the assumption that it is male. This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Islamic world, allows for women's role to be compared across time and space. This allows for the formation of hypotheses regarding which conditions and developments (theological, jurisprudential, social, economic, political) enhanced or stifled female religious authority in Shi'i Islam.
Key Features
Covers both the medieval and modern period
Features 10 case studies including ones on hadith culture, women judges, Fatima, Iran, and the concept of the role of the vakil
Questions assumptions about the inherently progressive agenda of female religious authorities
Includes an overview of the contemporary debates about female religious authority in Islam
Contents
IntroductionMirjam Künkler and Devin Stewart
Forgotten Histories of Female Religious Authority in IslamMirjam Künkler, SCAS
Umm Salamah: A Female Authority Legitimating the AuthoritiesYasmin Amin, University of Exeter
Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima as Inheritor of Her Father's LegacyAlyssa Gabbay, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Female Authority in the Times of the Shi'i ImamsLiyakat Takim, McMaster University, Canada
"She should not raise her voice when amongst men": Imāmī arguments against (and for) women judgesRobert Gleave, University of Exeter
Husniyyah's Debate at the Court of Harun al-Rashid: Sectarian Polemics and Female Religious Authority Devin Stewart, Emory University
Layli as Queen of Heaven by Muhammadi of Herat, c. 1565Michael Barry, American University of Afghanistan
Princesses, Patronage, and the Production of Knowledge in Safavid IranYusuf Ünal, Emory University
The Lives of Two Mujtahidahs: Female Religious Authority in 20th Century IranMirjam Künkler, SCAS, and Roja Fazaeli, Trinity College Dublin
The "Other Half of the Mission": Amina Bint al-Hudà (al-Sadr) as Wakil for Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr?Raffaele Mauriello, Allameh Tabataba'i University
Speaking in the Name of Zaynab: Female Shi'i Religious Authority in SyriaEdith Szanto, University of Alabama
Women's Religious Seminaries in Iran: A Diversified System Despite State Attempts at Unification and StandardizationMaryam Rutner, NYU
