Walbridge Linda S. (edit.) The Most Learned of the Shia: The Institution of the Marja Taqlid

USA: Oxford University Press, 2001 - 288 p. ISBN10: 019513799X ISBN13: 9780195137996 (eng)This collection of essays explores the nature of political and religious leadership in Shi'ism. Contributors look at a variety of critical historical periods from medieval to modern to reveal the social, political, and theological factors that have influenced the development of Shi'ite leadership.