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The Emergence of Global Marajiʿ in the Modern Period The Emergence of Global Marajiʿ in the Modern Period
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Embracing the Most Learned at Arm’S Length: the Case of Al-Hujat Embracing the Most Learned at Arm’S Length: the Case of Al-Hujat
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Payam-I ʿAmal and Local Authority Between Pakistan, India, and the Middle East Payam-I ʿAmal and Local Authority Between Pakistan, India, and the Middle East
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Pushing Ahead: Shariʿatmadari and the Journal Al-Muntazar Pushing Ahead: Shariʿatmadari and the Journal Al-Muntazar
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Three Projections and Receptions of Religious Authority: Grand Ayatollahs and Pakistan’s Shiʿi “Periphery”
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Published:April 2019
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the arguments exchanged about a lay believer’s obligation to emulate a high-ranking scholar (marji‘) in his daily conduct (taqlid). The findings question the view of Pakistan as a mere Shi‘i “backwater.” Instead, the chapter argues that the country should be understood as a veritable center of religious vitality in its own right. Local Shi‘i ‘ulama in the “periphery” displayed remarkable creativity when arguing about the “centers”, using a variety of strategies to bolster their own authority. This chapter explores how the leading grand ayatollahs, residing mostly in Najaf and Qum, attempted to influence the debate about who should be recognized in Pakistan as the preeminent global scholar and how these claims to authority were received and reinterpreted. The discussion illuminates the crucial moments of succession after the death of one widely accepted and revered marji‘, the Iraqi scholar Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim (d. 1970). His demise played into the hands of the decidedly internationally minded Iranian jurist Sayyid Muhammad Kazim Shari‘atmadari (d. 1986) who had acquired the largest following of any marji‘ in Pakistan by the mid-1970s.
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