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...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: 'Physiology is Theology': Gendered Bodies in Sufi and Islamic Constructions of the Self" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Equinox Publishing
2022
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| In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sufism
/ Literature
/ Menstruation
/ Gender-specific role
/ Masculinity
/ Fasting
/ Cultic purity
/ History 800-1300
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam TE Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Hadith
B Menstruation B Purity B Gender B Asceticism B Sufism |
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