The man-like woman and the menstruating man: gendered discourses of purity and piety in male-authored Sufi writings
There are a number of oblique references in Sufi literature to pious women whose austerities resulted in the loss of their menstrual cycle, as well as pious men who ascribed to themselves a type of metaphorical menstruation as a method of self-disparagement. This article analyzes such references in...
| Άλλοι τίτλοι: | "Special Issue: 'Physiology is Theology': Gendered Bodies in Sufi and Islamic Constructions of the Self" |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Έκδοση: |
2022
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| Στο/Στη: |
Body and religion
Έτος: 2022, Τόμος: 6, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 9-30 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Σουφισμός (μοτίβο)
/ Λογοτεχνία (μοτιβο)
/ Εμμηνόρροια <μοτίβο>
/ Ρόλος των φύλων (μοτίβο)
/ Αρρενωπότητα (μοτίβο)
/ Νηστεία
/ Λατρευτική καθαρότητα
/ Ιστορία (μοτίβο) 800-1300
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | AD Κοινωνιολογία της θρησκείας, Πολιτική της θρησκείας AG Θρησκευτική ζωή, Υλική θρησκεία BJ Ισλάμ ΤΕ Μεσαίωνας |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Hadith
B Purity B Εμμηνόρροια <μοτίβο> B Gender B Asceticism B Sufism |
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| Σύνοψη: | There are a number of oblique references in Sufi literature to pious women whose austerities resulted in the loss of their menstrual cycle, as well as pious men who ascribed to themselves a type of metaphorical menstruation as a method of self-disparagement. This article analyzes such references in relation to dominant medieval Sufi discourses of purity and piety, in order to investigate the gendered rhetoric and presuppositions that underlie explicit and implicit allusions to menstruation in Sufi texts. In isolating and analyzing allusions to menstruation, four categories of reference emerge: depersonalization of menstrual blood, metaphorical male menstruation, masculinization of pious women, and reification of amenorrheic women. These narrative strategies, although applied inconsistently, all contribute to an overall deliberate effort by male authors to justify the inclusion of female bodies in male-dominated discursive spaces, while ultimately perpetuating hegemonic theologies of sacred masculinity. Through examining these inconsistent applications of gender in male-authored Sufi writings, this analysis identifies new avenues for revisiting medieval Islamicate notions of gendered identity in society in ways that dismantle ahistorical binary models of gender that have often skewed readings of Sufi and medieval Muslim sources. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.23377 |