Manifestations of a Sufi woman in Central Asia : a critical edition of Ḥāfiẓ-i Baṣīr's Maẓhar al-ʻajāʾib
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Manifestations of a Sufi woman in Central Asia : a critical edition of Ḥāfiẓ-i Baṣīr's Maẓhar al-ʻajāʾib
（Islamicate intellectual history, v. 6）
Brill, c2021
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Includes index
Text in Persian and English
Pagination is irregular
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Mazhar al-'aja'ib is the devotional work written to expound upon the teachings of Agha-yi Buzurg, a female religious master active in the early 16th century in Bukhara. The work was produced in 16th century Central Asia, when the region underwent major socio-economic and religio-political changes in the aftermath of the downfall of the Timurid dynasty and the establishment of the Shibanid dynasty in Mavarannahr and the Safavid dynasty in Iran.
In its portrayal of Agha-yi Buzurg, the Mazhar al-'aja'ib represents a tradition that maintained an egalitarian conception of gender in the spiritual equality of women and men, attesting to the presence of multiple voices in Muslim discourse and challenging conventional ways of thinking about gender history in early modern Central Asia.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1 History of Composition
2 The Manuscript Copies of the Mazhar al-'Aja'ib
3 The Structure of the Mazhar al-'Aja'ib
4 The Three Fables in the Mazhar al-'aja'ib
5 Poetry in the Mazhar al-'Aja'ib as a Mirror into the Author's Worldview
6 Pseudo-'Attar's Mazhar al-'Aja'ib as a Model for Hafiz-i Basir's Mazhar al-'Aja'ib
7 The Question of Genre
8 Conclusion
Note
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
