
The Maẓhar al-ʿajāʾib is the devotional work written to expound upon the tea c hings of Aghā-yi Buzurg, a female religious master active in the early 1 6th century in Bukhara. The work was produced in 16th century Central Asia, when the region underwent major socio-economic and religio-political changes in the aftermath of the downfall of the Timurid dynasty and the establishment of the Shibanid dynasty in Mavaranna hr and the Sa fav id dynasty in Iran.
In its portrayal of Aghā-yi Buzurg, the Maẓhar al-ʿajāʾib represents a tradition that m ai ntained an egalitarian conception of gender in the spiritual equality of women and men, attesting to the presence of multiple voices in Muslim discourse and challenging conventional ways of thinking abo ut gender history in early modern Central Asia.
Aziza Shanazarova, Ph.D. (Indiana University-Bloomington, 2019), is Assistant Professor of Religion at Columbia University.
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