Early Sufi Women books geografi og historie

geografi og historie

his kindness to his brothers when they came to beg for grain during the famine

It is also hoped that it will promote still further the goodwill and understanding between the East and West

culled from the great Sufi manuals of spirituality

-- The Christian Century

Early Sufi Women books geografi og historieThis earliest known work in Islam devoted entirely to women's spirituality was written by the Persian Sufi Abu 'Abd ar Rahman as Sulami. The long lost text provides portraits of 80 Sufi women who lived in the central Islamic lands between the 8th and 11th centuries C. E. As spiritual masters and exemplars of Islamic piety, they served as respected teachers and guides in the same way as did Muslim men, often surpassing men in their understanding of