Aisha Al-Ba'uniyya
Subtitle: A Life in Praise of Love
Publisher: Oneworld Publications; Oneworld Academic
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781786076106
Description: Aisha al-Ba'uniyya (c.1456-1517) was one of the greatest women mystics in Islamic history. A Sufi master and an Arab poet, her religious writings were extensive by any standard and extraordinary for her time. In medieval Islam a number of women were respected scholars and teachers, but they rarely composed works of their own. Aisha al-Ba'uniyya, however, was prolific. She composed over twenty works, and likely wrote more Arabic prose and poetry than any other Muslim woman prior to the twentieth century.