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Sufi Women of South Asia Veiled Friends of God (Indian Edition)

Sufi Women of South Asia Veiled Friends of God (Indian Edition)

$104
Author:Tahera Aftab
ISBN 13:9789360801113
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English
Year:2025
Pages:620pp.,
Published On:15th January 2025
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology/Women Studies

About the Book

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.