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Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God

Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God

Aftab, Tahera

Hardcover

IslamGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 9004467173
ISBN13: 9789004467170
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 19 2022
Pages: 596
Weight: 2.27
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, the first biographical compendium of hundred and forty-one women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century, Tahera Aftab fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding the historical presence of women in Islam and brings women to the centre of the expanding literature on Sufism. The book's translated excerpts from the original Farsi and Urdu sources that were never put together create a much-needed English-language source base on Sufism and Muslim women. The book questions the spurious religious and cultural traditions that patronise gender inequalities in Muslim societies and convincingly proves that these pious women were exemplars of Islamic piety who as true spiritual masters avoided its public display.

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