Women mystics and sufi shrines in India

By Kelly Pemberton

Subjects: Ritus, Sufismus, Muslimin, Rituals, Sufism, Islam, Women in islam, Heiligenverehrung, Frau, India, religion, Customs and practices, Religion, Women in Islam, Women mystics

Description: This work combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood.