{"product_id":"sufi-women-of-south-asia-veiled-friends-of-god-9789004467170","title":"Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210826277207,"sku":"9789004467170","price":182.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sufi-women-of-south-asia-veiled-friends-of-god-9789004467170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}