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The most learned of the Shiʻa : the institution of the Marjaʻ taqlid / edited by Linda S. Walbridge.

Contributor(s): Walbridge, Linda S
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001Description: xii, 264 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 019513799X (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Murjiʼah | Taqlīd | Authority -- Religious aspects -- Islam | Shīʻah -- DoctrinesDDC classification: 297.6/1 LOC classification: BP195.M7 | M67 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Shiʻism and authority / Linda S. Walbridge -- The life of an ʻAlim / Sayyid Niʻmatuʼllah Al-Jazaʼiri, translation by E.G. Browne -- The Imam's return: messianic leadership in late medieval Shiʻism / Shahzad Bashir -- Fayd al-Kashani and the rejection of the clergy/state alliance: Friday prayer a politics in the Safavid period / Andrew J. Newman. -- The economic role of the Ulama in Qajar Persia / Willem Floor -- Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsaʼi on the sources of religious authority / Juan R.I. Cole -- Fatima's religious authority in an early work by the Bab / Toff Lawson -- Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr: the search for new foundations / John Walbridge -- Baqir al-Sadr's quest for the Marjaʻiya / Talib Aziz -- ʻAlima Bint al-Huda, women's advocate ? Joyce Wiley -- The fundamental problem in the clerical establishment / Morteza Motahari; Farhad Arshad, translator; Hamid Dabashi, introduction -- Analysis of Khomeini's proofs for al-Wilaya al-Mutlaqa (comprehensive authority) of the jurist / Talib Aziz -- The portrayal of an academic rivalry: Najaf and Qum in the writings and speeches of Khomeini, 1964-78 / Devin J, Stewart -- The counterreformation: becoming a Marjaʻ in the modern world / Linda S. Walbridge -- The Marjaʻ and the survival of a community: the Shiʻa of Medina / Yousif al-Khoei.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Shiʻism and authority / Linda S. Walbridge -- The life of an ʻAlim / Sayyid Niʻmatuʼllah Al-Jazaʼiri, translation by E.G. Browne -- The Imam's return: messianic leadership in late medieval Shiʻism / Shahzad Bashir -- Fayd al-Kashani and the rejection of the clergy/state alliance: Friday prayer a politics in the Safavid period / Andrew J. Newman. -- The economic role of the Ulama in Qajar Persia / Willem Floor -- Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsaʼi on the sources of religious authority / Juan R.I. Cole -- Fatima's religious authority in an early work by the Bab / Toff Lawson -- Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr: the search for new foundations / John Walbridge -- Baqir al-Sadr's quest for the Marjaʻiya / Talib Aziz -- ʻAlima Bint al-Huda, women's advocate ? Joyce Wiley -- The fundamental problem in the clerical establishment / Morteza Motahari; Farhad Arshad, translator; Hamid Dabashi, introduction -- Analysis of Khomeini's proofs for al-Wilaya al-Mutlaqa (comprehensive authority) of the jurist / Talib Aziz -- The portrayal of an academic rivalry: Najaf and Qum in the writings and speeches of Khomeini, 1964-78 / Devin J, Stewart -- The counterreformation: becoming a Marjaʻ in the modern world / Linda S. Walbridge -- The Marjaʻ and the survival of a community: the Shiʻa of Medina / Yousif al-Khoei.

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