Early Sufi Women books Shedding light on a candid

Shedding light on a candid and forthright global community

-- The Christian Century

culled from the great Sufi manuals of spirituality

its size (Length by Width is 55 by 17 inches)

and even into the seventies

Early Sufi Women books Shedding light on a candidThis earliest known work in Islam devoted entirely to women's spirituality was written by the Persian Sufi Abu 'Abd ar Rahman as Sulami. The long lost text provides portraits of 80 Sufi women who lived in the central Islamic lands between the 8th and 11th centuries C. E. As spiritual masters and exemplars of Islamic piety, they served as respected teachers and guides in the same way as did Muslim men, often surpassing men in their understanding of