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Rula Jurdi Abisaab's Reply to Devin Stewart's review of her book, Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire, published in Iranian Studies, 39, 2, June 2006
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
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- Book Review: Reply and Rejoinder
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1 In the modern period, Murtaā al-An
ārī, a formidable u
ūlī jurist rejected
ujiyyat al-ijmā‘ (consensus as an authoritative proof in legal inference) and refused to place it on a par with the Qur'an, the hadith and ‘aql as a source of juridical certainty. Al- An
ārī, some even said, had destroyed the basis of consensus (“
a
ama al-ijmā‘”).