The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800–1989)

This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among  Shīʿī  scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilāya through the examination and interpretation of key texts. She focuses on the influence of ibn ʿArabī’s mysticism, with regard to the conception of wilāya , on his Shīʿa successors and expositors in later centuries.  She also discusses the development and tran