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Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God (Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World, 20) by Tahera Aftab is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God (Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World, 20) about?
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Who reads Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God (Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World, 20)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tahera Aftab
- Publisher
- BRILL; Brill Academic Pub
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004467187
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Middle Eastern History, Humanities