Aisha al-Ba'uniyya A Life in Praise of Love [#300360]

Th. Emil Homerin, "Aisha al-Ba'uniyya: A Life in Praise of Love "
English | ISBN: 1786076101 | 2019 | 176 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Aisha al-Ba'uniyya (c.1456-1517) was one of the greatest women mystics in Islamic history. A Sufi master and an Arab poet, her religious writings were extensive by any standard and extraordinary for her time. In medieval Islam a number of women were respected scholars and teachers, but they rarely composed works of their own. Aisha al-Ba'uniyya, however, was prolific. She composed over twenty works, and likely wrote more Arabic prose and poetry than any other Muslim woman prior to the twentieth century.