Sufi women of South Asia

• Verfasst von: Aftab, Tahera [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Sufi women of South Asia
• Titelzusatz: veiled friends of God
• Verf.angabe: by Tahera Aftab
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: xxiv, 595 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Women and gender ; volume 20
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-90-04-46717-0
• Schlagwörter: (g)Südasien / (s)Sufismus / (s)Muslimin
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Aftab, Tahera: Sufi women of South Asia. - Leiden : Brill, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 595 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1794979816

Abstract

Introduction -- Part I. Sufis, Sufism, and Transformations: 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. The Sufi Texts: From Imagination to the Inscribed Word -- 3. The Sufi Gaze: Perception of Women by Male Sufis -- 4. The Sufi Gaze: Sufi Perception of Family -- 5. The Sufi Gaze: Interaction with Maidservants and Women of Ill Repute -- 6. Women's Presence in Sufi Silsilas -- 7. Sufi Lodges: Fencing the Sacred and the Profane -- 8. Sufi Shrines: Manifesting the Deceased Sufi -- Part II. Biographies of Sufi Women: 9. Biographical Notices of Sufi Women by Time Period -- 10. Biographical Notices of Sufi Women according to Their Specific Status -- 11. Biographical Notices of Women Sufis Based on Oral Traditions Collected by Visiting Their Shrines -- 12. Sufi Women Identified by Name Only -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Abstract

"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"--