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My Favourite Mystic 12: Laury Silvers on Shawana
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AJ Langley speaks to Dr Laury Silvers about the Sufi mystic Shawana (9th century). We discuss the challenges scholars face when trying to find early Islamic female mystics, the impact of regional history on the articulation of mysticism, Shawana's weeping, and Laury's transition from academia to writing historical fiction. (CW: references to slavery and sexual assault)
Laury Silvers is a retired professor of early Islamic mysticism, specialising in gender. She received her PhD from SUNY Stony Brook in 2002. Her work on mysticism and 10th-century Bagdad is the inspiration for her historical fiction series, The Sufi Mysteries. The first book, The Lover, follows Zaytuna as she is "forced to face the suffering of the most vulnerable in Baghdad and the emotional and mystical legacy of her mother, a famed ecstatic whose love for God eclipsed everything" as she seeks justice for the death of a local boy.
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AJ Langley speaks to Dr Laury Silvers about the Sufi mystic Shawana (9th century). We discuss the challenges scholars face when trying to find early Islamic female mystics, the impact of regional history on the articulation of mysticism, Shawana's weeping, and Laury's transition from academia to writing historical fiction. (CW: references to slavery and sexual assault)
Laury Silvers is a retired professor of early Islamic mysticism, specialising in gender. She received her PhD from SUNY Stony Brook in 2002. Her work on mysticism and 10th-century Bagdad is the inspiration for her historical fiction series, The Sufi Mysteries. The first book, The Lover, follows Zaytuna as she is "forced to face the suffering of the most vulnerable in Baghdad and the emotional and mystical legacy of her mother, a famed ecstatic whose love for God eclipsed everything" as she seeks justice for the death of a local boy.
Check out The Sufi Mysteries at https://www.llsilvers.com/
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