The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800-1989) Reading Ibn ʿArabī's Theory of Wilāya in the Shīʿa World /

• Main Author: Chamankhah, Leila (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
• Subjects: Islam-Doctrines.; Indo-Iranian languages.; Middle East-History.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Middle Eastern literature.; Middle East-Politics and government.; Islamic Theology.; Indo-Iranian Languages.; History of the Middle East.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Middle Eastern Literature.; Middle Eastern Politics.

This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among Shīʿī scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilāya through the examination and interpretation of key texts. She focuses on...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Ibn ʿArabī and Wilāya
• 3. The Shaykhī School and Wilāya
• 4. The Schools of Tehran and Qum and Wilāya
• 5. Khomeini, Wilāya, and the Influence of Ibn ʿArabī
• 6. Khomeini as the Jurist and Wilāya
• 6. Conclusion. .