Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam: Past and Present

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Carimo Mohomed
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Islamic religious authority is conventionally understood to be an exclusively male purview. Yet when dissected into its various manifestations – leading prayer, preaching, issuing fatwas, transmitting hadith, judging in court, teaching law, theology, and other Islamic sciences and, generally shaping the Islamic scholarly tradition – nuances emerge that hint at the presence of women in the performance of some of these functions. This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Twelver Shi‘i Islamic world, reflects on the roles that women have played in exercising religious authority across time and space. Comparative reflection on the case studies allows for the formulation of hypotheses regarding the conditions and developments – whether theological, jurisprudential, social, economic, or political – that enhanced or stifled the flourishing of female religious authority in Twelver Shi‘i Islam.
什叶派伊斯兰教中的女性宗教权威:过去与现在
传统上,伊斯兰宗教权威被认为是男性独有的职权范围。然而,当对其各种表现形式进行剖析时——领导祈祷、传教、发布法特瓦、传播圣训、在法庭上进行审判、教授法律、神学和其他伊斯兰科学,以及总体上塑造伊斯兰学术传统——细微差别的出现暗示了女性在履行其中一些职能时的存在。这组案例研究涵盖了从古典伊斯兰教到现在的时期,来自整个二十世纪的什叶派伊斯兰世界,反映了妇女在跨时间和空间行使宗教权威方面所发挥的作用。通过对案例研究的比较思考,可以提出关于条件和发展的假设——无论是神学、法学、社会、经济还是政治——这些条件和发展增强或扼杀了二十世纪什叶派伊斯兰教中女性宗教权威的繁荣。
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