Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam Past and Present

by Künkler, Mirjam; Stewart, Devin J.

• ISBN13: 9781474426602
• ISBN10: 1474426603
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-09-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Mirjam Künkler is Senior Research Fellow at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.She is co-editor, with Alfred Stepan, of Indonesia, Islam and Democracy (2013).

Devin Stewart is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Emory University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Mirjam Künkler and Devin Stewart

2. Forgotten Histories of Female Religious Authority in Islam
Mirjam Künkler, SCAS

3. Umm Salamah: A Female Authority Legitimating the Authorities
Yasmin Amin, AUC Egypt

4. Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima as Inheritor of Her Father's Legacy
Alyssa Gabbay, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

5. Female Authority in the Times of the Shi'i Imams
Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Canada

6. "She should not raise her voice when amongst men": Imami arguments against (and for) women judges
Robert Gleave, University of Exeter

7. Husniyyah's Debate at the Court of Harun al-Rashid: Sectarian Polemics and Female Religious Authority
Devin Stewart, Emory University

8. Princesses, Patronage, and the Production of Knowledge in Safavid Iran
Yusuf Ünal, Emory University

9. The Lives of Two Mujtahidahs: Female Religious Authority in 20th Century Iran
Mirjam Künkler, SCAS, and Roja Fazaeli, Trinity College Dublin

10. The "Other Half of the Mission": Amina Bint al-Hudà (al-Sadr) as Wakil for Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr?
Raffaele Mauriello, Sapienza University of Rome

11. Speaking in the Name of Zaynab: Female Shi'i Religious Authority in Syria
Edith Szanto, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani

12. Women's Religious Seminaries in Iran: A Diversified System Despite State Attempts at Unification and Standardization
Maryam Rutner, NYU

13. Cover Art: Laylî as Queen of Heaven by Muhammadî of Herât, ca. 1565
Michael Barry