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Recent works have raised interest in the #Shia of #SouthAsia especially the intellectual history of the elites - a thread on the #Shii religious establishment and elites in #SouthAsia 1/
For a long time the best and more comprehensive account was that of the Indian scholar based in Australia Saiyad Athar Abbas Rizvi (d. 1986) a two volume work 2/
But what is very helpful to understand the development of the religious establishment and its politics have been recent publications coming out of #Qum and #Najaf 3/
The best that was available before were these three tazkiras one from the late colonial period and two from the 1970s and afternoon 4/
I wrote a series of blogposts on the recent publications starting with this text of the early 20thC Sayyid Ahmad Hindi mullasadra.blogspot.com/2014/05/source… 5/
This text along with the famous Nujum al-sama does a good job of interpreting the ‘ulema of #SouthAsia into the networks of the shrine cities in #Iraq and #Iran mullasadra.blogspot.com/2016/11/source… 6/
This text of Mufti Muhammad ‘Abbas Shushtari (d. 1889) has been published a few times in recent decades but this is the best edition mullasadra.blogspot.com/2016/11/source… 7/
Studies of the #Shii hierocracy in #SouthAsia are dominated by the so-called #khandan_e_ijtihad established by Sayyid Dildar ‘Ali (d. 1820) on whom mullasadra.blogspot.com/2017/06/source… 8/
This important 19th century source that linked the #Lucknow ‘ulema to the wider #NorthIndian networks mullasadra.blogspot.com/2017/07/source… 9/
And finally this work by Sayyid ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi (d. 1988) from his time in Najaf in the 1920s mullasadra.blogspot.com/2019/07/source… 10/
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