What were old women presumed to know about medicine, and why was it always old women? Alongside the trope of…
Do old women know medicine?
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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.
Divine!
I am interested in mothers that are fathers, fathers that are mothers, and other forms of queer gestation and parenting.
Allah, hidden treasures, and the Divine Feminine
The idea of God the father is simply not part of the dominant Muslim imaginary. Instead Muslim theology speaks of…
Le mal des fleurs
Surely one reason for the ongoing but mistakenly benign and otherworldly cliché of India as a land of “spirituality” is…
Must a female God mother?
As we seek to reimagine God, I am not sure that the corrective to the damage that has been done…