Name: Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God
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Author: Aftab, Tahera
ISBN: 9789004467170

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Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God

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Physical Book

Author

Tahera Aftab

Publisher

Brill

Language

English

Pages

620

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9789004467170

Synopsis "Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God"

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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