rabiʿa al-aʿdawiyya (717-801 a.d.) the first female sufi in the muslim world, who introduced the concept of ‘love’ into mysticism, was popular for her witticism, sharp reprimands of her contemporary male sufis and her gender-bending practices. in ʿattar’s tadhkirat al-awliya, rabiʿa is portrayed as a challenger of the established gender norms of her day. rabiʿa’s crossing of gender boundaries a...

of these case studies ably do; but having done this, to go beyond reductive explanations the historian must then ask why some people from the group elected to embrace that particular medical option while others did not. We also need to know much more about how public pronouncements about healing deployed in highly politicized arenas correspond to more private belief and behaviour. Most of these...

There are few, if any, of the physical disabilities incidental to the sex, more productive of suffering, both in mind and body, than dysmenorrhea, especially in its more persistent forms. A large, and with the advance of civilisation, apparently, an increasing proportion of women menstruate with an amount of pain and difficulty sufficient to give a decidedly morbid character to this, the charac...

Women in Higher EducationVolume 32, Issue 8 p. 16-16 From the Editor: Habari Gani? There's More Than One Path to Womanhood Autumn A. Arnett, ArnettSearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 August 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/whe.21313Read full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare text full-text accessPlease re...