Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India

by Kelly Pemberton

Insightful field research into the complexity of women's roles in a subset of Islamic culture.

Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood. Kelly Pemberton grounds her firsthand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570039194
• ISBN13: 9781570039195
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"