Talk:Isabelle Eberhardt

message: There are photos of her in existence; there's one on the cover of her diaries biut I can't don't have a scanner, only a camera. As she's been dead over 100 years I'm guessing any image is Public Domain so if folk can find a good one that'd be great.
Chaikney 14:44, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bravo for the major improvement! There are some small typo's but it looks really very good! I have no pictures and even if they are old I am not sure whether they would be public domain. There are many on the web (google images: search on Isabelle Eberhardt) but they are maybe too small.--User:AAM | Talk 21:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: "She had converted to the austere Wahabbi form of Islam and regarded it as her true calling in life."  I truly doubt she was a Wahhabi for two reasons.  First, the Wahabbi doctrine hadn't reached North Africa at that time (it is mainly isolated to Saudi Arabia to this day, although petro dollars have been successful in propagating it elsewhere).  Second, if she was a "Wahabbi" Muslim she would have no association with the Qadiri sufi order.  Historically, Wahabbis fought and massacred many sufis in Arabia, and sufism to this day is banned in Saudi Arabia.  If Eberhardt participated in a Jihad that doesn't make her a Wahhabi.  If there is substantial proof she was a Wahabbi, please post it, otherwise please consider revising this article.
:I am not very familiar with different forms of the Islam. But look at the following reference  that says (quote): From a long correspondence with the scholarly Wahab before she even set foot in North Africa, Isabelle was introduced  to  a  reformist  strain  of  Islam  known  as Wahabism (sometimes Wahhabism) deriving from Ali's own  family  dynasty. (end quote). This seems to come from an introduction to "The Nomad, diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt" written by Annette Kobak. --User:AAM | Talk 08:07, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wahhabi 

message: Please revise the article until it sounds tenable.  "I was an anarchist, now I'm a Muslim" does not deserve the giddiness it receives from the tone in which it's delivered in the article.  --VKokielov 12:01, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  tendentious 

message: Any problems with just replacing this with a list of works by her? --Ronz (talk) 04:28, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Writing section

message: Hello. I did not add the "offending" template, but I do agree that thise sentence -- "She was a liberated individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam" -- is, without the support of a reliable and neutral third-party source, inappropriate because it violates various Wikipedia guidelines. Its removal, on the other hand, solves the problem without ruining a perfectly fine article in any way. Regards, George Custer's Sabre (talk) 11:56, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subjectivity in the lead 

message: could someone please verify the "many other languages" she spoke fluently and list them
or remove that statement, it seems very unspecific and vague.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.88.85.210 (talk) 23:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: According to one of the sources provided, she spoke Russian, French, German and Italian; at the age of 12 she read Latin and Greek and began to learn Arabic. Hohenloh  +   17:02, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages? 

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message: According to the intro, Eberhardt was forced to leave in 1901 but was allowed to return a year later -- i.e., 1902 -- "after marrying her long-time partner ... Slimane Ehnni."
Yet, in the "Travels to Europe" section, it's stated that she met Slimane Ehnni after returning to "Algeria in July 1900."
This is what I don't understand - - -
::how can he be a "long-time partner" when they'd only known each for less than three years???
Or is my definition of "long-time" --- at least a minimum of 10 - 15 years --- that different from everybody else's?  I don't see how 'less than three years' can even be considered as "long-term". 
As such, I think the phrase of "long-time" should seriously be considered for removal from the intro (and anywhere else it appears) along with a slight of the sentence. 2600:8800:786:A300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 02:16, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd consider three years long-term, but sure, I can appreciate that others would not. Also keep in mind she died at 27 so 3 years is a significant chunk of her adult life. I don't feel strongly about changing it, but I'm happy to in order to address your concern. I don't have the authority to change it on the main page but I've removed the term in the article itself. Freikorp (talk) 03:49, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "her long-time partner"