Women mystics and sufi shrines in India

By Kelly Pemberton

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

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.