Mutuality and immediacy between Marjaʿ and Muqallid: evidence from male in vitro fertilization patients in Shʿi Lebanon

This article concerns the dominant institution of religious authority within modern Usuli Twelver Shiʿi Islam: the <em>marjaʿiyya</em>. The most senior clerics serve as “sources of emulation” (<em>marājiʿ al-taqlīd</em>), informing the moral conduct of their lay “imitators” (...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Clarke, M, Inhorn, M
التنسيق: Journal article
اللغة:English
منشور في: Cambridge University Press 2011
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