Khomeini and Muhammad al-Shīrāzī : Revisiting the Origins of the “Guardianship of the Jurisconsult” (wilāyat al-faqīh)
Scharbrodt, Oliver LU
(2020)
In Welt des Islams
61(1).
p.9-38
- Abstract
This article revisits the origins of Khomeini's concept of the guardianship of the jurisconsult (wilāyat al-faqīh) and argues that his own formulation of this concept needs to be embedded in debates around the clerical mandate in the state among clerical activists in Iraq he encountered during his exile. Focus will be on the so-called Shīrāzī network around the brothers Muhammad (1928-2001), Hasan (1927-80) and Sādiq al-Shīrāzī (b. 1942) and their nephew Muhammad Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945) The article discusses the close relationship between Khomeini and Muhammad al-Shīrāzī and the important role the religio-political networks associated with the Shīrāzī brothers played in early post-revolutionary Iran. A detailed discussion of the... (More)
This article revisits the origins of Khomeini's concept of the guardianship of the jurisconsult (wilāyat al-faqīh) and argues that his own formulation of this concept needs to be embedded in debates around the clerical mandate in the state among clerical activists in Iraq he encountered during his exile. Focus will be on the so-called Shīrāzī network around the brothers Muhammad (1928-2001), Hasan (1927-80) and Sādiq al-Shīrāzī (b. 1942) and their nephew Muhammad Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945) The article discusses the close relationship between Khomeini and Muhammad al-Shīrāzī and the important role the religio-political networks associated with the Shīrāzī brothers played in early post-revolutionary Iran. A detailed discussion of the writings of the Shīrāzī brothers and Taqī al-Mudarrisī, written between 1960 and 1970, is undertaken to illustrate that debates around wilāyat al-faqīh among Iraqi clerical activists preceded Khomeini's own lectures on the concept in Najaf in 1970.
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- Scharbrodt, Oliver
LU
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Islamic state, Khomeini, Muhammad al-Shīrāzī, Shūrā, Taqī al-Mudarrisī, Wilāyat al-faqīh
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- Welt des Islams
- volume
- 61
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 30 pages
- publisher
- Brill
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- scopus:85107210749
- ISSN
- 0043-2539
- DOI
- 10.1163/15700607-00600A08
- project
- Alterumma - Creating an Alternative umma: Clerical Authority and Religio-political Mobilisation in Transnational Shii Islam
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 724557). I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful suggestions and recommendations. Publisher Copyright: © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2020
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