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Table of contents :
Preface 9
Introduction 17
Chapter
1 • Women and the Prophet 26
2 • Women in Sufism 34
3 • Women in the Quran and in the Tradition 54
4 • Woman or "Man of God": The Education of the Soul (nqfs) 69
5 • The Old Woman 81
6 • The Mothers 89
7 • Woman as Manifestation of God 98
8 • The Brides of God 107
9 • Woman-Souls in Indo-Pakistani Poetry 118
10 • Sasst's Wanderings 139
11 • Sohm Mehanwal 156
12 · Omar Maru1 169
Epilogue 180
Bibliography 182
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