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A l'encontre de la misogynie ordinaire qui traverse tous les milieux sans épargner les plus "éveillés", il est indéniable que le Divin en islam présente des aspects profondément féminins. Dieu ne se nomme-t-il pas lui-même "le Tout-Miséricordieux" (expression coranique qui renvoie à la "matrice" de la femme) ? Ainsi, nombre de maîtres soufis ont exalté la précellence spirituelle du principe féminin, et se sont parfois adressés à "Elle" plutôt qu'à "Lui".Eric Geoffroy, islamologue et spécialiste internationalement reconnu du soufisme, rend compte ici de cette face méconnue de l'islam, à travers ses développements sur l'androgynie originelle de l'humanité, l'évocation de grandes figures féminines comme Marie et des saintes soufies. Ce tableau étonnant débouche sur l'évolution actuelle du soufisme qui ouvre des voies nouvelles dans la pratique musulmane : nous découvrons des femmes théologiennes, des imames, et même des cheikhas de confréries, qui s'imposent par leur dimension spirituelle.Il nous permet aussi de mieux saisir en quoi le Féminin semble incarner l'avenir de nos sociétés.

Women in Islam. --- Sufism --- Femininity of God. --- Muslim women saints. --- Women sufis.

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Through revealing the fascinating story of the Sufi master Aghā-yi Buzurg and her path to becoming the 'Great Lady' in sixteenth-century Bukhara, Aziza Shanazarova invites readers into the little-known world of female religious authority in early modern Islamic Central Asia, revealing a far more multifaceted gender history than previously supposed. Pointing towards new ways of mapping female religious authority onto the landscapes of early modern Muslim narratives, this book serves as an intervention into the debate on the history of women and religion that views gender as a historical phenomenon and construct, challenging narratives of the relationship between gender and age in Islamic discourse of the period. Shanazarova draws on previously unknown primary sources to bring attention to a rich world of female religiosity involving communal leadership, competition for spiritual superiority, and negotiation with the political elite that transforms our understanding of women's history in early modern Central Asia.

Women sufis --- Women --- Muslim women saints --- Sufism --- History --- Āghā-yi Buzurg, --- Leadership. --- Ḥāfiẓ Baṣīr,

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In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa , Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa. The thread that runs through the book is the life and times of Sittī ‘Alawiyya al-Mīrġanī (1892-1940), a representative of a well-established transnational Sufi order in the Red Sea region. Silvia Bruzzi gives us not only a social history of the colonial encounter in the Eritrean colony, but also a wider historical account of supra-regional dynamics across the Red Sea, the Ethiopian hinterland, and the Mediterranean region, using a wide range of fragmentary historical materials to make an important contribution towards filling the gap that currently exists in women's and gender history in Muslim societies.

Sufism --- Islam --- Women sufis --- Women in Islam --- Sufi women --- Sufis --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- History --- al-Mīrghanī, 'Alawiyya, --- El Morgani, 'Alawiyya-Sceriffa Alauia, --- Mīrghanī, 'Alawiyya al-,

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This text examines a group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figural silks depicting legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry. Codified by Nizami Ganjavi in the twelfth century, the Khamsa gained popularity in the Persian-speaking realm through illustrated manuscripts produced for the elite, creating a template for illustrating climactic scenes in the love stories of 'Layla and Majnun' and 'Khusrau and Shirin' that appear on early modern silks.

Clothing and dress --- Silk pictures --- Textile crafts --- Women sufis --- DESIGN / History & Criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- History. --- History --- Clothing. --- Fabric crafts --- Textile arts --- Textile fiber crafts --- Handicraft --- Fancy work --- Fiberwork --- Woven-silk pictures --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Fashion --- Undressing --- Sufi women --- Sufis --- Safavid, Mughal, Silk, Nizami, Khamsa. --- Silk, Safavid --- Love in art. --- Sufism in art. --- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, --- Illustrations.