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The religion of the old women of Nishapur

From deathbed anecdote to polemical trope: The “old women of Nishapur” in Islamic historiography

Sara Abdel-Latif·

April 20, 2022

Analyzing the reception history of al-Juwaynī’s deathbed anecdote reveals the substitutions, generalizations, and symbolic conflations of groups of people that…