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 "slug": "tdv-merci-taklid",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مرجع التقليد — موسوعة TDV الإسلامية ⁦(حامد ألكار)⁩",
  "en": "MERCİ-i TAKLÎD — TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Hamid Algar)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدخل «مرجع التقليد» في موسوعة TDV الإسلامية ⁦(المجلد 29، أنقرة 2004، ص 172–174)⁩ بقلم حامد ألكار: المجتهد الذي يرجع إليه الإمامية في الفتوى، وشروطه، وقواعد التقليد، ودوره في الحكم والمال، وتاريخه السياسي في العهد القاجاري والمعاصر.",
  "en": "The TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi entry 'MERCİ-i TAKLÎD' (vol. 29, Ankara 2004, pp. 172–174) by Hamid Algar: the mujtahid whom Imami Shi'is consult for rulings, his conditions, the rules of following a marja, the office's role in religious dues and endowments, and its political history under the Qajars and after."
 },
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  "title": "MERCİ-i TAKLÎD",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Algar",
    "given": "Hamid"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2004
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "TDV İslâm Araştırmaları Merkezi, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 29 (Ankara, 2004), pp. 172–174; web edition",
  "URL": "https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/merci-i-taklid",
  "language": "tr",
  "reliability_note": "Read on 1 November 2026 in the web edition, printed pages 172–174 (the entry's own line). Read in full to the section on the Burujerdi period and the debate on the marja's role in politics; the last part, on the later debate about choosing the most learned, was not read and is not cited.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-haiku-5-5)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-06",
 "connections": [],
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}