The Thread of Mu?awiya: The Making of the Marj?aiya - Couverture souple

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Walbridge, Linda Strickland

 
9780615957562: The Thread of Mu?awiya: The Making of the Marj?aiya
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0615957560 ISBN 13 : 9780615957562
Editeur : Ramsay Press, The, 2014

Synopsis

The marja‘s or grand ayatollahs are the scholars who sit at the pinnacle of the Shi‘a religious hierarchy. Normally learned and reclusive men, they nonetheless wield enormous authority through their religious prestige and the funds generated by religious taxes. From their modest homes in the Shi‘ite shrines cities of Iraq and Iran, their influence reaches across the Shi‘a world carried by networks of sons, sons-in-law, students, and local clerics. This book reveals the process by which a handful of religious scholars become recognized as grand ayatollahs, the way their influence is exercised, and how they relate to other Shi‘a clerics and to ordinary believers. Based on scores of interviews with Shi‘a clerics, this book gives a detailed and human portrait of the inner world of the Shi‘ite clerical hierarchy. The late Linda Walbridge was an anthropologist of religion specializing in minorities in the Islamic world. Her other works include Without Forgetting the Imam: Shi‘ism in an American Community, The Most Learned of the Shi‘a: The Institution of the Marja‘ Taqlid, and The Christians of Pakistan: The Passion of Bishop John Joseph.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The marja‘s or grand ayatollahs are the scholars who sit at the pinnacle of the Shi‘a religious hierarchy. Normally learned and reclusive men, they nonetheless wield enormous authority through their religious prestige and the funds generated by religious taxes. From their modest homes in the Shi‘ite shrines cities of Iraq and Iran, their influence reaches across the Shi‘a world carried by networks of sons, sons-in-law, students, and local clerics. This book reveals the process by which a handful of religious scholars become recognized as grand ayatollahs, the way their influence is exercised, and how they relate to other Shi‘a clerics and to ordinary believers. Based on scores of interviews with Shi‘a clerics, this book gives a detailed and human portrait of the inner world of the Shi‘ite clerical hierarchy. The late Linda Walbridge was an anthropologist of religion specializing in minorities in the Islamic world. Her other works include Without Forgetting the Imam: Shi‘ism in an American Community, The Most Learned of the Shi‘a: The Institution of the Marja‘ Taqlid, and The Christians of Pakistan: The Passion of Bishop John Joseph.

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Éditeur
Ramsay Press, The
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0615957560
ISBN 13 
9780615957562
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
186
Éditeur
Walbridge John
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