Elvire Corboz earned a D. Phil from Wadham College, University of Oxford and has held positions at Princeton University and Rutgers University.
Using extensive resources, meticulous research and a sophisticated conceptual framework, Elvire Corboz has given us an innovative study of transnational Shi'ism. She offers a fascinating portrait of the ways in which the Shi'i clergy uses institutional and philanthropic networks to construct and maintains its authority across national borders. The rich, nuanced and ecumenical portrait of the Shi'i marja'iyya in Guardians of Shi'ism provides an important palliative to the sectarian lens that is all too often used to interpret Shi'ism in a narrow political and stereotypical manner.-- "Eric Davis, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University"
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