Thread by @Jawnmard1

A number of Sufi biographers do include documentation of these radiant women. Shaykh ‘Abd al-Haqq Muhaddis Dihlawi (one of the important early biographers) included a chapter on women saints in his book Akhbaru’l-akhyar (Stories of the Chosen Ones).
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In Rawdat al-nazirin wa khulasat manaqib al-salihin (The Garden of the Guardians and the Extract of the Deeds of the Upright), Abu Muhammad al-Witri (d. 1512) also recorded the lives of some of the Sufi women of later centuries.
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Many of the later Sufi luminaries, like Ibn al-‘Arabi in his Sufis of Andalusia, refer to radiant women who had a strong influence on their development and the continuation of the Sufi teaching.
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Camille Adams Helminski, Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure

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