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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Publié dans:Der Islam
Auteur principal: Homerin, Th. Emil 1955- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: De Gruyter [2019]
Dans: Der Islam
Année: 2019, Volume: 96, Numéro: 2, Pages: 449-470
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Bāʿūnīya, ʿĀʾiša Bint-Yūsuf al- 1455-1516 / Mameluckenreich / Islam / Savante / Voyage
RelBib Classification:AG Vie religieuse
BJ Islam
KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord
Sujets non-standardisés: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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Résumé: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
Contient:Enthalten in: Der Islam
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/islam-2019-0030