Sufi Women of South Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-46717-0
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1033 g

Reihe: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aftab, Tahera

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliterations

List of Abbreviations

Glossary of Selected Sufi Terms


Introduction

PART ONE

Section A: Setting the Scene

Section B: The Sufi Texts: From Imagination to the Inscribed Word

Section C: The Sufi Gaze: Perception of Women by the Male Sufis

Section D: The Sufi Gaze: The Sufi Perception of Family and Familial Responsibilities

Section E: The Sufi Gaze: Interaction with Maid Servants and Women of Ill-repute

Section F: Women’s Presence in The Sufi Silsilas

Section G: The Sufi Lodges: Fencing the Sacred and The Profane

Section H: Sufi Shrines: Manifesting the Deceased Sufi

PART TWO

Section A. Narratives of Sufi Women According to the Time Period

Section B: Biographical Notices of Sufi Women According to Their Specific Status

Section C Biographical Notices of Women Sufis Based on Oral Traditions Collected by Visiting their Shrines

Section D: Sufi Women Identified by Names Only

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tahera Aftab, Ph.D. (1986) in History, University of Karachi, is Professor of History and Founding Director of Women's Studies (retired) at the University of Karachi, Pakistan. She has also taught at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg (PA, USA) She is the Founding Editor and publisher of Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan and has published monographs and articles on south Asia, including Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women: An Annotated Bibliography & Research Guide (Brill, 2007) and A Story of Days Gone by: A Translation of Biti Kahani: An Autobiography of Princess Shahr Bano Begam of Pataudi (OUP, 2012).