Women in Sufism
Subtitle: Female Religiosities in a Transnational Order
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780415741736
Subjects: Sufism; Women, morocco
Description: "The book is a comparative study of the Būdshīshiyya Order in Morocco and Western Europe. It examines the embodied expressions of Sufism by looking at the ways in which religious discourses are bodily endorsed, by exploring the religious body in movement, in performance and in relation to the social order"--

"Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qariyya B.