::Roundtable:: ChatGPT and the Marjaʿ

::Roundtable:: ChatGPT and the Marjaʿ

By Zahra Takhshid In the Oscar winning movie A Separation, Raziyeh, the caregiver of Nader’s father, picks up the phone from the convenience of Nader’s home and calls her marjaʿ taqlīd’s[1] office to ask about a religious question concerning her job.[2] Access to a marjaʿ was not always easy. In older times, the most common way of finding an answer to a religious question was asking the local mosque’s imam,[3] hoping that the imam would also be …