The most learned of the Shiʻa : the institution of the Marjaʻ taqlid /
This collection of essays explores the nature of political and religious leadership in Shi'ism. The contributors look at a variety of historical periods - from medieval to modern - to reveal the social, political, and theological factors that have influenced the development of Shi'ite lead...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.