Picturing Islamic Authority: Gender Metaphors and Sufi Leadership in Senegal
Gendered metaphors of begetting, birth, milk nursing, maternal nurturing, virility, filial piety, patrilineage, and marital relationships have been central to Sufi imaginations of religious knowledge and authority for over a millennium. Contemporary adherents of the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi movement in...
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Brill
2014
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Islamic Africa
Year: 2014, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-315 |
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