Tear-language: weeping as resistance in Islamic and Christian contemplative hagiography
Women's weeping forms the basis for a powerful, resistive discourse in medieval Christian and Islamic hagiographic modes. This is keenly evident in Abū ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān as-Sulamī's (d. 1021) Dhikr an-Niswa al-Mutaʿabbidāaṣ-ṣūfiyyāt (Remembrances of Women Sufi Devotees), Abū al Faraj ibn al-J...
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Routledge
2023
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