Female Religious Authority in Muslim Majority Contexts: Past Examples and Modern State-Initiatives
This chapter addresses questions of female religious authority across early Islamic history and their modern developments in Iran in a comparative perspective. Public religious leadership has remained a male domain for much of Islamic history. Against an
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Gender and Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time
Adele Bardazzi • Alberica Bazzoni Editors
Gender and Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time
Editors Adele Bardazzi The Queen’s College University of Oxford Oxford, UK
Alberica Bazzoni School of Modern Languages and Culture University of Warwick Coventry, UK
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Oxford, which funded the Gender and Authority Network from which this volume originated. We are particularly grateful to the colleagues and friends who made the Network possible, in particular Julia Caterina Hartley, Natalya Din-Kariuki, David Bowe, Richard Williams, Vittoria Fallanca, Marzia D’Amico and Kira Allmann. We also thank the British Academy and The Queen’s College, Oxford, for supporting our research. Our gratitude goes to the anonymous reviewers of the initial project for their extremely valuable advice on the book’s structure and bibliographical references, and especially for encouraging us to release our feminist voices. We also wish to thank all the external reviewers of the chapters who have kindly and generously helped us on this journey. Their expertise, perceptive comments and feedback have been precious for improving the final shape of this book. Thank
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