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According to a popular narrative, "after her father had slaughtered a bull at her request, she cooked it, distributed its meat to villagers, and brought it back to life in order to reveal her sainthood," an event which was then "regularly commemorated in song during rituals held at her shrines."
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to commemorate ʿĀʾisha under the name of "The
Mausoleum of As-Saida Al-Manoubya" in her birthplace area. The Mausoleum is still famous today and valued in the field of Tunisian national heritage and history. It was vandalised and burned after the
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Many books and studies have discussed ʿĀʾisha's history. So, too, have cinema and Sufi songs and performances. Key scholarly studies of ʿĀʾisha include:
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In portraying ʿĀʾisha's socially-transgressive behavior, narrations of her story tend to "alig her with the Ṣūfī model of the 'blamable ones" (
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Dates given for ʿĀʾisha's life vary slightly, but scholarly sources suggest she lived from 1199 to 1267
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