Edited by MIRJAM KüNKLER, DEVIN J. STEWART

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Reflects on women participating in Islamic scholarly traditions from the classical period to the present

When 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, compares the role of women 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 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

Contributors

Yasmin Amin, AUC Egypt
Alyssa Gabbay, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Robert Gleave, University of Exeter
Mirjam Künkler, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
Raffaele Mauriello, Allameh Tabataba’i University and Sapienza University of Rome
Maryam Rutner, New York University
Devin Stewart, Emory University
Edith Szanto, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
Liyakat Takim, McMaster University
Yusuf Ünal, Emory University

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