About the Author

Elvire Corboz earned a D. Phil from Wadham College, University of Oxford and has held positions at Princeton University and Rutgers University.

Reviews

'Elvire Corboz has written an impressive study of the proliferation of clerical authority in modern Shiʿism, where the classical transnational marjaʿiyya increasingly cooperates with institutional forms of representation. Based on intense and diligent fieldwork, it is well written and totally devoid of fashionable jargon; the bibliography is comprehensive, and the index cannot but be called exemplary. It is required reading for anyone dealing with contemporary Shiʿite Islam.'--Rainer Brunner "Die Welt des Islams"