Based on ethnographic fieldwork in North India (among Gudri Shah Chishtis in Ajmer, and among members of two branches of the Firdausi order of Sufis in Bihar Sharif and Maner), Pemberton points to the apparent contradiction between narratives that exclude women from ritual and spiritual roles in Sufism, and the very obvious presence and participation of women in such roles in contemporary Indian Sufism.
IN Women Mystics Kelly Pemberton addresses the issue of women's participation in the role of ritual specialists at Sufi shrines in India. Illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
Kelly Pemberton, Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in IndiaĬolumbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.
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