Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45962
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): 'Attar , Farid ad-Din,
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  • Title: Women’s Spirituality [a. Rabi'a, b. Venetian nuns, c. Converso women]
  • Source: Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650.  Edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos and Mark D. Meyerson.  University of California Press, 2022.  Pages 213 - 216.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Islam Judaism Monasticism Mystics Spirituality Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean; Iberia ; Italy
  • Century: 13, 15
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  • Related Resources: The first text is from Farid ad-Din 'Attar’s Memorial of God’s Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis, trans. Paul Losensky (Paulist Press, 2008), pp. 97, 104, 108-9. The second text is from Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436, ed. and trans. Daniel Bornstein (University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 72, 91-92. The third text is translated by Mark D. Meyerson, A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Princeton University Press, 2004.
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780520296534