Sufi women of South Asia: veiled friends of God

Introduction -- Part I. Sufis, Sufism, and Transformations: 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. The Sufi Texts: From Imagination to the Inscribed Word -- 3. The Sufi Gaze: Perception of Women by Male Sufis -- 4. The Sufi Gaze: Sufi Perception of Family -- 5. The Sufi Gaze: Interaction with Maidservants and...

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1. VerfasserIn: Aftab, Tahera (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden Boston Brill [2022]
In: Woman and gender (volume 20)
Jahr: 2022
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Woman and gender volume 20
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Südasien / Sufismus / Muslimin
weitere Schlagwörter:B Sufis (South Asia) Biography
B Women sufis (South Asia) Biography
B Muslim Women (South Asia) Biography
B Women in Islam (South Asia)
Parallele Ausgabe:Elektronisch
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction -- Part I. Sufis, Sufism, and Transformations: 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. The Sufi Texts: From Imagination to the Inscribed Word -- 3. The Sufi Gaze: Perception of Women by Male Sufis -- 4. The Sufi Gaze: Sufi Perception of Family -- 5. The Sufi Gaze: Interaction with Maidservants and Women of Ill Repute -- 6. Women's Presence in Sufi Silsilas -- 7. Sufi Lodges: Fencing the Sacred and the Profane -- 8. Sufi Shrines: Manifesting the Deceased Sufi -- Part II. Biographies of Sufi Women: 9. Biographical Notices of Sufi Women by Time Period -- 10. Biographical Notices of Sufi Women according to Their Specific Status -- 11. Biographical Notices of Women Sufis Based on Oral Traditions Collected by Visiting Their Shrines -- 12. Sufi Women Identified by Name Only -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
"In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, the first biographical compendium of hundred and forty-one women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century, Tahera Aftab fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding the historical presence of women in Islam and brings women to the centre of the expanding literature on Sufism. The book's translated excerpts from the original Farsi and Urdu sources that were never put together create a much-needed English-language source base on Sufism and Muslim women. The book questions the spurious religious and cultural traditions that patronise gender inequalities in Muslim societies and convincingly proves that these pious women were exemplars of Islamic piety who as true spiritual masters avoided its public display"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004467173