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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…

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Divine motherhood

Allah, hidden treasures, and the Divine Feminine

Sa’diyya Shaikh·

May 27, 2019

The idea of God the father is simply not part of the dominant Muslim imaginary. Instead Muslim theology speaks of…

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