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Allah au féminin : le féminin et la femme dans la tradition soufie
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ISBN: 2226443509 9782226443502 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris: Albin Michel,

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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.


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Manifestations of a Sufi woman in Central Asia
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ISBN: 9004441352 9789004441354 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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"The Maẓhar al-ʻajāʼib is the devotional work written to expound upon the teachings of Aghā-yi Buzurg, a female religious master active in the early 16th century in Bukhara. The work was produced in 16th century Central Asia, when the region underwent major socio-economic and religio-political changes in the aftermath of the downfall of the Timurid dynasty and the establishment of the Shibanid dynasty in Mavarannahr and the Safavid dynasty in Iran. In its portrayal of Aghā-yi Buzurg, the Maẓhar al-ʻajāʼib represents a tradition that maintained an egalitarian conception of gender in the spiritual equality of women and men, attesting to the presence of multiple voices in Muslim discourse and challenging conventional ways of thinking about gender history in early modern Central Asia"--


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Female Religiosity in Central Asia : Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World
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ISBN: 9781009386371 1009386379 1009386360 9781009386340 9781009386395 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press & Assessment,

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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.


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Aisha al-Ba'uniyya : a life in praise of love
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ISBN: 1786076101 9781786076106 Year: 2019 Publisher: London: Oneworld,


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Islam and gender in colonial northeast Africa : Sitti 'Alawiyya, the uncrowned queen
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ISBN: 9004356169 900434800X Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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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.


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Rābiʻa the Mystic and her fellow-saints in Islam
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ISBN: 0511710798 1108015913 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Rabi'a, a female Sufi saint, was born in 717 CE and released from slavery to lead a life in pursuit of purity and perfect union with God. Her teachings and the numerous miracles attributed to her have made her an influential and revered figure in Sufi theology. This authoritative 1928 biography of the saint was written by Margaret Smith, who mastered numerous eastern languages, travelled extensively, and published a number of translations of important Arabic texts. Smith's linguistic skill and her immersion in the culture she studied has produced a book still considered an important account of Rabi'a's life. Smith also includes an incisive discussion of the role of women in early Islamic mysticism and an examination of Sufi doctrine, and examines the issues of celibacy and sainthood in Islam. A biography of one exceptional woman written by another.


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Sufi lovers, Safavid silks and early modern identity
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ISBN: 9048551145 9463721738 Year: 2023 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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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.

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