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020			_a978-9004467170
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050			_a BP188.8.S64 A38
100			_aAftab, Tahera _eAuthor _977523
245			_aSufi Women of South Asia: _bVeiled Friends of God
260			_aLeiden ; Boston : _bBrill, _c2022
300			_a595 pg; _c25 cm
520			_a"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"
650			_a Women sufis _v Biography. _zSouth Asia _977524
650			_aMuslim women _vBiography _zSouth Asia _977525
650			_a Women in Islam _zSouth Asia _977526
887			_28 _aPapia Akter
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