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Authors: Linda S. Walbridge
ISBN-13: 9780195137996, ISBN-10: 019513799X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: August 2001
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Linda S. Walbridge

Book Synopsis

This collection of essays explores the nature of political and religious leadership in Shi'ism. Contributors look at a variety of critical historical periods—from medieval to modern—to reveal the social, political, and theological factors that have influenced the development of Shi'ite leadership.

	Contributors
	Introduction: Shi'ism and Authority	3
1	The Life of an 'Alim	17
2	The Imam's Return: Messianic Leadership in Late Medieval Shi'ism	21
3	Fayd al-Kashani and the Rejection of the Clergy/State Alliance: Friday Prayer as Politics in the Safavid Period	34
4	The Economic Role of the Ulama in Qajar Persia	53
5	Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i on the Sources of Religious Authority	82
6	Fatima's Religious Authority in an Early Work by the Bab	94
7	Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr: The Search for New Foundations	131
8	Baqir al-Sadt's Quest for the Marja'iya	140
9	'Alima Bint al-Huda, Women's Advocate	149
10	The Fundamental Problem in the Clerical Establishment	161
11	Analysis of Khomeini's Proofs for al-Wilaya al-Mutlaqa (Comprehensive Authority) of the Jurist	183
12	Fadlallah and the Remaking of the Marja'iya	205
13	The Portrayal of an Academic Rivalry: Najaf and Qum in the Writings and Speeches of Khomeini, 1964-78	216
13	The Counterreformation: Becoming a Marja' in the Modern World	230
14	The Marja' and the Survival of a Community: The Shi'a of Medina	247
	Glossary	251
	Index	255

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Author Biography: Linda S. Walbridge

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