Sufi Women and Mystics

This book focuses on women's important contribution to Sufism by analysing the lives and seminal contributions of six mystic Sufi women to Islamic spirituality.

Autorentext

Minlib Dallh is a Dominican friar and Visiting Assistant Professor at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (USA). His research focuses on comparative mysticism, women mystics, and love-mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. His first book was entitled The Sufi and the Friar: A Mystical Encounter of Two Men of God in the Abode of Islam (2017).

Klappentext

This book focuses on women's important contribution to Sufism by analysing the lives and seminal contributions of six mystic Sufi women to Islamic spirituality.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. F tima of Nish p r and Umm Ali al-Balkhi: Two Forerunner Sufi Women of the Ninth-Century Greater Khur s n 2. Aisha al-Mann biyya (d. 1267) Enthralled in Divine love: 'la sainte parfaitement ravie en Dieu' (majdh ba) 3. Aisha al-B ' n yya: Living in the Love of God and Veneration to his Messenger, Muhammad 4. Jahan Ara Bengum: A Powerful Princess and a Sufi Devotee of the Mughal Empire 5. Nana Asma'u bint Usman dan Fodio (d. 1865): The Erudite Mystic and Poet of the Sokoto Caliphate Conclusion