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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Main Author: Hill, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Islamic Africa
Year: 2014, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-315
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