Today, a new interpretation of women’s rights and other issues related to women is becoming a challenge for the religious modernists. Shiite thought has at least the potential advantage to …

2011年2月11日 · In theory, Shiʿism has a more favorable attitude towards women than Sunni Islam. These favorable differences are largely annulled, however, by some specific Shiʿite …

2024年1月3日 · At present, most Shia scholars agree that women cannot be Marja', i.e., create religious rulings for other people. But there is a space for discourse, and there are even a few …

Shiite sacred narratives assign prominent roles to two female figures, Fatima Zahra (daughter of Muhammad, wife of Ali and mother of Hasan and Husayn) and Zaynab, the daughter of Ali and …

Women of the Ismaili sect are part of Shia Islam. Some subsects have women's rights issues, others observe a relatively progressive environment within their sects, which is also dependent …

2024年1月3日 · In this article, I examined this problem by analysing the main existing points of view on permissibility of woman to become a Marja’ at-taqlid in Shia Islamic thought, in order …

2020年1月1日 · Shi’a women define themselves through these powerful rituals every time they are reenacted, giving voice to historical and current oppression and suffering. The women’s …

This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Islamic world, compares the role of women ac...

2017年9月29日 · The Shiites, who believe Prophet Muhammad's cousin, son-in-law and closest relative, Ali, is his rightful successor, have a distinct set of beliefs regarding the role and status …

female mojtahed in twentieth-century Iran. Rutner’s broader research deals with the relation-ship between politics and religion, women and gender, religious authority, as .