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Reference: [Encyclopaedia Iranica, Āyatallāh](https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ayatallah/).", "in_scope": [ "Attribution of the title ayatollah to a person in a specified community and period", "Evidence of scholarly standing and recognition associated with the attribution", "Relationships to seminaries, teachers, students and recognizing scholarly communities", "Separately evidenced teaching, jurisprudential and pastoral activities", "Disputes, changes and regional variation in title usage" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The title holder's complete biography and personal identity", "Governance and operations of a seminary or religious organization", "The full doctrine and practices of Twelver Shiʿism", "Marjaʿ al-taqlid status and follower relationships beyond their connection to this title", "Political offices, state powers and employment contracts held by the person" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require evidence that the specific title ayatollah is attributed; generic descriptions such as cleric, scholar or imam do not establish it.", "Distinguish the title attribution from evidence of competence in independent jurisprudential reasoning, recording each separately.", "Check marjaʿ al-taqlid and grand ayatollah claims separately instead of treating the titles as interchangeable.", "Identify the religious, linguistic and historical context before interpreting the title as a comparable rank.", "Require separate appointment or delegation evidence for governmental, organizational or representative powers." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested title form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Exact original-language wording and transliteration; ayatollah, grand ayatollah or another explicitly attested form", "why_it_matters": "Prevents normalization from silently upgrading or conflating titles." }, { "name": "Title bearer", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to a separately identified person", "why_it_matters": "Separates the religious role from the 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"description": "Represent the evidence connecting the attribution to religious learning and jurisprudential competence.", "rationale": "An honorific alone cannot establish the nature or extent of scholarly competence.", "layers": [ { "id": "formation-and-teaching", "name": "Formation and teaching", "description": "Connect relevant study and teaching activity to documented scholarly settings.", "findings": [ { "id": "scholarly-formation", "name": "Scholarly formation", "description": "Identify supported teacher, seminary and advanced teaching relationships without treating attendance as automatic qualification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which teachers, seminaries and fields of study are documented for this bearer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "scholarly-formation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes participation in study from recognition as an advanced teacher?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "scholarly-formation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "jurisprudential-assessment", "name": "Jurisprudential assessment", "description": "Assess claims concerning ijtihad through their own supporting evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "ijtihad-evidence", "name": "Ijtihad evidence", "description": "Record who attests jurisprudential competence, what is attested and whether any document is authentic.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which scholarly assessments or credentials support the claimed competence in ijtihad?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ijtihad-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does each assessment state limits on subject matter or competence, and how should those limits constrain reliance?", "kind": "action", "id": "ijtihad-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-contestation", "name": "Recognition and contestation", "description": "Track the communities and evidence behind acceptance or disagreement over the title.", "rationale": "Recognition must remain attributable and contextual rather than becoming an unsupported universal rank.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognizing-actors", "name": "Recognizing actors", "description": "Distinguish scholarly recognition from self-description, publicity and repeated reporting.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-basis", "name": "Recognition basis", "description": "Identify the origin and independence of supporting title usages.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which named scholars or institutions use the title, and in what capacity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Do multiple attestations provide independent recognition or reproduce one original announcement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-over-time", "name": "Recognition over time", "description": "Preserve changes and disagreements without forcing them into a single uncontested status.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-disagreement", "name": "Dated disagreement", "description": "Record supported changes in usage and explicit disputes with their stated grounds.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated evidence establishes changes in how particular communities address the bearer?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-disagreement-q01" }, { "text": "Does a disagreement challenge the title, scholarly competence, marjaʿ status or a separate political position?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-disagreement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "religious-activity-and-reliance", "name": "Religious activity and reliance", "description": "Connect the bearer to authenticated religious work and identify the basis for relying on it.", "rationale": "An agent needs evidence about particular teachings and guidance relationships beyond the title.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-religious-work", "name": "Attributed religious work", "description": "Identify actual teaching, writing and responses to religious questions.", "findings": [ { "id": "authenticated-output", "name": "Authenticated output", "description": "Link relevant works or rulings to reliable attribution 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"provenance", "id": "appointment-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed responsibilities arise from that appointment rather than the ayatollah attribution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "appointment-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "delegated-representation", "name": "Delegated representation", "description": "Assess claims that another person or office may act on the bearer's behalf.", "findings": [ { "id": "representative-mandate", "name": "Representative mandate", "description": "Verify the scope and continuing applicability of claimed representation, including any authority concerning religious funds.", "questions": [ { "text": "What authenticated mandate establishes the representative's permitted activities, territory and duration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "representative-mandate-q01" }, { "text": "What verification is required before directing a request or religious payment to this representative?", "kind": "action", "id": "representative-mandate-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 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"authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a ayatollah is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a ayatollah is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a ayatollah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a ayatollah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a ayatollah moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a ayatollah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a ayatollah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a ayatollah passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a ayatollah between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a ayatollah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a ayatollah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a ayatollah, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a ayatollah is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a ayatollah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a ayatollah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a ayatollah.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a ayatollah and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a ayatollah, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a ayatollah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a ayatollah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a ayatollah and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a ayatollah sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a ayatollah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a ayatollah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as ayatollah.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does ayatollah require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses ayatollah, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What ayatollah actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define ayatollah, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as ayatollah, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a ayatollah came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a ayatollah and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a ayatollah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a ayatollah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a ayatollah is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a ayatollah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a ayatollah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a ayatollah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }