Female Mystics in Mediaeval Islam: The Quiet Legacy

Abstract Historians and analysts of current affairs alike are interested in the role that women have played in Islam, including the extent to which women were the agents and creators of Islamic mysticism. We still know surprisingly little about premodern learned women, particularly from the eastern...

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Main Author: Azad, Arezou (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
Year: 2013, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-88
Further subjects:B Women
B Afghanistan
B eastern Iran
B Islam
B Mysticism
B Gender
B Central Asia
B Scholarship
B mediaeval history
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