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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Chapter One: “The Scholars Are Heirs of the Prophets” 1 Chapter Two: The Holy Man in Islam 37 Chapter Three: Routinization of Charismatic Authority: The Shi¡i Case 78 Chapter Four: The Office of Charismatic Authority: The Functions of the Rijal 109 Chapter Five: Textual Authority and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Biographical Texts 145 Conclusion 181 Notes 185 Bibliography 217 Index 229 ...
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