Crossing Borders: ʿAʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya and Her Travels

Arabic scholarship and literature flourished during the Mamlūk period, and scholars and students from across the Muslim world were drawn to Cairo and Damascus. This led to opportunities for travel, education, and employment, yet these opportunities were available almost exclusively to men. In Syria...

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Veröffentlicht in:Der Islam
1. VerfasserIn: Homerin, Th. Emil 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: De Gruyter [2019]
In: Der Islam
Jahr: 2019, Band: 96, Heft: 2, Seiten: 449-470
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Bāʿūnīya, ʿĀʾiša Bint-Yūsuf al- 1455-1516 / Mameluckenreich / Islam / Weibliche Gelehrte / Reise
RelBib Classification:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
BJ Islam
KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika
weitere Schlagwörter:B Women
B Ibn ?ūlūn
B ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad Ibn Naqīb al-Ashrāf
B al-Ghawrī
B Aḥmad al-Bāʿūnī
B Ottomans
B Ḥajj
B Arabic Poetry
B ʿAʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya
B Ibn Ajā
B Yūsuf al-Bāʿūnī
B Ismāʿīl al-Ḥawwārī
B Mamlūks
B Sufism
B al-Ṣāliḥiyya
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Zusammenfassung:Arabic scholarship and literature flourished during the Mamlūk period, and scholars and students from across the Muslim world were drawn to Cairo and Damascus. This led to opportunities for travel, education, and employment, yet these opportunities were available almost exclusively to men. In Syria and Egypt, and most of the medieval world, women's involvement in travel, education, and public life, was often restricted. However, there were exceptions, including the prolific writer and poet ʿAʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya (d. 1517). As a woman, she crossed a number of social and cultural borders in order to enter into the domain of religious scholarship and literary production. Drawing from historical and biographical sources, and especially from ʿAʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya's writings, I examine her social and intellectual background, her travels and scholarly interactions in order to highlight some of the social trends and intellectual forces at work in the late Mamlūk period.
ISSN:1613-0928
Enthält:Enthalten in: Der Islam
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/islam-2019-0030