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September 27, 2024

Aziza Shanazarova’s new book on female religious authority in the 16th century

Aziza Shanazarova, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, has a new book out with Cambridge University Press, Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World. Through revealing the fascinating story of the Sufi master Aghā-yi Buzurg and her path to becoming the “Great Lady” in sixteenth-century Bukhara, Professor Shanazarova invites readers into the little-known world of female religious authority in early modern Islamic Central Asia, revealing a far more multifaceted gender history than previously supposed.

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