history of islamic law

Final Essay Outline

Begin at the ba’ath
- Ayatollah Husayn Burujirdi
- Sistani’s figures
Role of Islam in the Iraqi consitution?
Role of Husseinyya rituals in the constitution?
Constitution of Iraq
Attempts at reformation of practices either through the falleglation (sayyid muhsin)
Reza Shah - Nakash 170
Trace Sayyid Muhsin’s development of flaggelations and innovations
- is flagellation an innovatoin?
Not very clear, attempt to trace innnovation from Reza Shah and Sayyid Muhsin
Shaikh Abd al-Husain Sadiq, Mirza Husain al-Na’ini in Najaf
- Sayyid Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani
the question of flagellation, and why imam’s never do it, and other

Sayyid Muhsin speaks against tatbir
- Szanto article
- The question of flagellation and additional changes
- What is at stake here, with Sayyid Muhsin vs
  - Shakih Abd al-Hussain Sadiq
  - Mizra Hussain al-Na’ini in Najaf
- And Sayyid Abu il-Hasan al-Isfahani
What does ali al-wardi say about this?
Sayid Mohammad al-Quziwini issued a fatwa in 1926, stating that the rituals are to be limited
The role of shia rituals and its entwinement with local politics that doesn’t link necessarily with waqf or the material