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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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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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Rula Jurdi Abisaab*
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Abstract

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Type
Book Review: Reply and Rejoinder
Copyright
Copyright © Rula Jurdi Abisaab 2008

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1 In the modern period, Murtaā al-Anārī, a formidable uūlī 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- Anārī, some even said, had destroyed the basis of consensus (“aama al-ijmā‘”).