Female religious authority in Shi.Ai Islam :  past and present / 
edited by Mirjam Künkler and Devin J. Stewart. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 399 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Introduction /  2. Forgotten histories of female religious authority in Islam /  3. Umm Salamah : A female authority legitimating the authorities /  4. Heiress to the Prophet : Fatima's khutba as an early case of female religious authority in Islam /  5. Female authority in the times of the Shi'i Imams /  6. "She should not raise her voice when amongst men" : Imāmī arguments against (and for) women judges /  7. Husniyyah's debate at the court of Harun al-Rashid : Sectarian polemics and female religious authority /  8. Layli as Queen of Heaven by Muhammadi of Herat, c. 1565 /  9. Princesses, patronage, and the production of knowledge in Safavid Iran /  10. The lives of two mujtahidat : Female religious authority in twentieth-century Iran /  11. The other half of the mission : Amina 'Bint al-Huda' as a representative (Wakila) of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr /  12. The Alimat of Sayyida Zaynab : Female Shi'i religious authority in a Syrian seminary /  13. Women's religious seminaries in Iran : A diversified system despite state attempts at unification and standardisation /  Mirjam Künkler and Devin Stewart --  Mirjam Künkler --  Yasmin Amin --  Alyssa Gabbay --  Liyakat Takim --  Robert Gleave --  Devin Stewart --  Michael Barry --  Yusuf Ünal --  Mirjam Künkler and Roja Fazaeli --  Raffaele Mauriello --  Edith Szanto --  Maryam Rutner. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781474426626 9781474426633 9781474476768 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Shiite women--Case studies.<br/>Women in Islam--Case studies.<br/>Authority--Religious aspects--Islam--Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP173  / .F463 2021