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

Other author Walbridge, Linda S.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxii, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00027868
ISBN019513799X (cloth : alk. paper)

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