Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. TABLES AND FIGURES vii
4. Note on Transliteration viii
5. NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS ix
6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
7. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Female Religious Authority in Shi‘i Islam : Past and Present 1
8. CHAPTER 2 FORGOTTEN HISTORIES OF FEMALE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN ISLAM 18
9. CHAPTER 3 UMM SALAMA: A FEMALE AUTHORITY LEGITIMATING THE AUTHORITIES 47
10. CHAPTER 4 HEIRESS TO THE PROPHET: FATIMA’S KHUṬBA AS AN EARLY CASE OF FEMALE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN ISLAM 78
11. CHAPTER 5 FEMALE AUTHORITY IN THE TIMES OF THE SHI‘I IMAMS 105
12. CHAPTER 6 ‘SHE SHOULD NOT RAISE HER VOICE WHEN AMONG MEN’: IMĀMĪ ARGUMENTS AGAINST (AND FOR) WOMEN JUDGES 121
13. CHAPTER 7 HUSNIYYA’S DEBATE AT THE COURT OF HARUN AL-RASHID: SECTARIAN POLEMICS AND FEMALE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY 138
14. CHAPTER 8 LAYLI AS QUEEN OF HEAVEN BY MUHAMMADI OF HERAT, C. 1565 193
15. CHAPTER 9 PRINCESSES, PATRONAGE AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN SAFAVID IRAN* 211
16. CHAPTER 10 THE LIVES OF TWO MUJTAHIDĀT: FEMALE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRAN 271
17. CHAPTER 11 THE OTHER HALF OF THE MISSION: AMINA ‘BINT AL-HUDA’ AS A REPRESENTATIVE (WAKĪLA) OF MUHAMMAD BAQIR AL-SADR 298
18. CHAPTER 12 THE ‘ĀLIMĀT OF SAYYIDA ZAYNAB: FEMALE SHI‘I RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN A SYRIAN SEMINARY 325
19. CHAPTER 13 WOMEN’S RELIGIOUS SEMINARIES IN IRAN: A DIVERSIFIED SYSTEM DESPITE STATE ATTEMPTS AT UNIFICATION AND STANDARDISATION 341
20. INDEX 395