According to Graeber and Wengrow, European elites did not embrace naturalism and empiricism in their accounts of human history to…
History is full of people with ideas
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Sensing without realizing
What is at stake is not to understand the meaning of the expression “the religion of the old women of…
Belief and (mal)practice: Dueling images of old women’s religiosity
That the “religion of old women” is often cited positively in discussions of disembodied faith, while marginalized in analyses of…
Old women: Transcendence of gender hierarchy, visibility, and authority
Without reflecting on the intersection of aging and gender, we cannot advance our conceptualization of the construction of gender relations…
Do old women know medicine?
What were old women presumed to know about medicine, and why was it always old women? Alongside the trope of…
Capabilities of old women
The old women cannot be relegated to the past or overcome. Their relationship to scholarship is asymmetrical: the old women’s…
From deathbed anecdote to polemical trope: The “old women of Nishapur” in Islamic historiography
Analyzing the reception history of al-Juwaynī’s deathbed anecdote reveals the substitutions, generalizations, and symbolic conflations of groups of people that…
Al-Juwayni, al-Ghazali, and Talal Asad on the religion of the old women of Nishapur
Several texts prompted the forum on the religion of the old women of Nishapur. To give readers the ability to…
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
As a hadith or as a trope, the expression “the religion of the old women” (dīn al-ʿajāʾiz) appears in many…
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
Marc David Baer and Sarah Imhoff discuss each other’s works and the ways they intersect.