The implications of Dawn for the study of religion are vast. We could consider the evidence that Graeber and Wengrow…
Back to basics, or how to tell a new origin story
knowledge
Sensing without realizing
What is at stake is not to understand the meaning of the expression “the religion of the old women of…
Inborn faith or knowledge: Mothers and the old women of Nishapur
It is unclear what the content of the faith of the old women/the mother is. This faith does not seem…
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…
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…