The most learned of the Shiʻa
Subtitle: the institution of the Marjaʻ taqlid
By: edited by Linda S. Walbridge.
Contributors: Walbridge, Linda S.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780195137996
Subjects: Murjiʾah; Taqlīd; Authority -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Shīʻah -- Doctrines
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Gift, April 2007"
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Shiʻism and authority / Linda S. Walbridge.; title: The life of an ʻAlim / Sayyid Niʻmatuʾllah Al-Jazaʾiri, translation by E.G. Browne.; title: The Imam's return: messianic leadership in late medieval Shiʻism / Shahzad Bashir.; title: Fayd al-Kashani and the rejection of the clergy/state alliance: friday prayer a politics in the Safavid period / Andrew J. Newman.; title: The economic role of the Ulama in Qajar Persia / Willem Floor.; title: Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsaʾi on the sources of religious authority / Juan R.I. Cole.; title: Fatima's religious authority in an early work by the Bab / Toff Lawson.; title: Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr: the search for new foundations / John Walbridge.; title: Baqir al-Sadr's quest for the Marjaʻiya / Talib Aziz.; title: ʻAlima Bint al-Huda, women's advocate ? Joyce Wiley.; title: The fundamental problem in the clerical establishment / Morteza Motahari; Farhad Arshad, translator; Hamid Dabashi, introduction.; title: Analysis of Khomeini's proofs for al-Wilaya al-Mutlaqa (comprehensive authority) of the jurist / Talib.; title: Aziz.; title: The portrayal of an academic rivalry: Najaf and Qum in the writings and speeches of Khomeini, 1964-78 / Devin J, Stewart.; title: The counterreformation: becoming a Marjaʻ in the modern world / Linda S. Walbridge.; title: The Marjaʻ and the survival of a community: the Shiʻa of Medina / Yousif al-Khoei.