Aisha as-sayyida “the mistress” Al-Manubiya (c.1199–1267) was a prominent Tunisian Sufi master/mistress, saint and scholar, revered for her piety, charity & almost feminist like advocacy for women’s education and for women's roles in spiritual and intellectual pursuits. This video is about her life and some context around her and her “feminism”!
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Sources & Further reading:
Abū 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī ,1999, Early Sufi Women: Dhikr an-Niswa al-Muta'abbidat as-Sufiyyat, trans. by Rkia Cornell
Âisha al-Mannûbiyya (v. 1198-1267)’, in Audrey Fella, Femmes en quête d’absolu: Anthologie de la mystique au féminin (Michel, 2016) translated to english.
Babnet, five years of prison for the ones involved in the burning of sayyid al-manubiya’s shrine, [ Ссылка ], 17 June, 2013, -Arabic
Belghith, Safa, Open Democracy ,The story of Saida Manoubiya: A Tunisian feminist icon, [ Ссылка ] , 12 July 2018
Belghith, Safa, Qantara.de, Tunisia's feminist icon, [ Ссылка ], 29.08.2018
Green, Nile. (2012). Sufism: a global history. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackweev
Jacobs, Daniel; Morris, Peter (2001). The Rough Guide to Tunisia. Rough Guides.
Katia Boissevain. al-Mannūbiyya, Sayyida ʿĀʾisha. The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2013, 3, [ Ссылка ]
Khlifi,Roua, the Arab weekly, Saida Manoubia, Tunisia’s only female Sufi saint, attracts followers ,[ Ссылка ], Sunday 17/07/2016
Knysh, Alexander D. (2017). Sufism: a new history of Islamic mysticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Lussato, CÃroline, Word Crunch, Salafists In Tunisia Target Sufi, The Mystics Of Islam, [ Ссылка ], May 14, 2015
Manâqib as-Sayyida 'Â'isha al-Mannûbiyya dâr al-kutub at-tunisiyya
Masri, Safwan, 2017 , Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly. New York: Columbia University Press
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Nelly, Amri, 2008, La sainte de Tunis. Présentation et traduction de l'hagiographie de ʿĀisha al-Mannūbiyya (Arles: Sindbad-Actes Sud)
Richard J. A. McGregor. “A Sufi Legacy in Tunis: Prayer and the Shadhiliyya.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, 1997, pp. 255–77. JSTOR, [ Ссылка ]. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
Ridgeon, Lloyd V. J. (red.) (2015). The Cambridge companion to Sufism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Saida Manoubiya: The Story of a Tunisian Feminist Icon, [ Ссылка ], May 15, 2024
Schmidtke, Sabine (red.) (2016). The Oxford handbook of Islamic theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Sedgwick, Mark (2003). Sufism: the essentials. [New ed.] Cairo: American University in Cairo Press
Silvers, Laury (2015). Early pious, mystic Sufi women. The Cambridge companion to Sufism. pp. 24-52
Tarfa, Inel, In The Untold Stories of Muslim Saints in Tunisia. Tunisia Live. 7 November 2016.
Tunisien.tn, Appeal court confirms the five years of prison for the ones involved in the burning of sayyid al-manubiya’s shrine, [ Ссылка ] , 06/03/2015 -arabic
Toussulis, Yannis (2011). Sufism and the Way of Blame. Wheaton: Quest Books.
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