Aziza Shanazarova

Female Religiosity in Central Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009386357
• Artikelnr.: 70909800

Autorenporträt

Aziza Shanazarova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, where she specializes on the religious history of Islamic Central Asia and the broader Persianate world with an emphasis on the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The intersection of gender and age within Muslim discourse; 1. Religion and politics in post-Timurid central Asia; 2. The centrality of
Alidism in the Mähar al-
Aj
ib; 3. Locating the Great Lady within the Sufi milieu of sixteenth-century central Asia; 4. The Chaghatay Book of Guidance: The categories of Qiz, Khatun, and Qari Khatun; 5. The portrayal of the Great Lady in the Mähar al-
Aj
ib; 6. The Great Lady and her hagiographers; 7. The Great Lady in shrine traditions; Conclusion.