TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aftab, Tahera
TI  - Sufi Women of South Asia: : Veiled Friends of God
SN  - 978-9004467170
AV  -  BP188.8.S64 A38 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leiden ; Boston : 
PB  - Brill, 
KW  -  Women sufis
KW  -  Biography
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Biography
KW  -  Women in Islam
N2  - "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"
ER  -