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Aisha Al-Manoubya

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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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Amri, Nelly, 'Femmes, sainteté et discours hagiographique au Maghreb médiéval: Naissance à la sainteté, naissance à l'histoire; Le case d'une sainte de Tunis, 'Â'isha al-Mannûbiyya (m. 665/1267)', in
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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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Sainte parmi les saints. Sayyida Mannūbiya ou les recompositions cultuelles dans la Tunisie contemporaine
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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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La sainte de Tunis: Présentation et traduction de l'hagiographie de 'Â'isha al-Mannûbiyya (m. 665/1267)
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The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib
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La sainte de Tunis. Présentation et traduction de l'hagiographie de ʿĀisha al-Mannūbiyya
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In popular memory, ʿĀʾisha represents a powerful and respected saint. One of the
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takes her name. Al-Manoubya used to retire to pray in that neighbourhood.
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scholar associated with Baghdad but originally of Persian origin.
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Problems and Planning in Third World Cities (Routledge Revivals)
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Femmes en quête d'absolu: Anthologie de la mystique au féminin
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Early Sufi Women: Dhikr an-Niswa al-Muta'abbidat as-Sufiyyat
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Histoire des femmes au Maghreb: Réponses à l'exclusion
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and good deeds. She was the supporter and student of
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Arabic
CE
Tunisian
Islam
Sufism
Sidi Bousaid al-Baji
Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili
CE
AH
hagiography
Manouba
Tunis
karamāt
Malamatiyya
Shādhiliyya Ṣūfīs
Tunis
Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya
Abū l-Ḥassan al-Shādhilī
Shādhilī
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
al-Junayd
Shāfiʿī
manāqib
Ḥafṣīd
La Manouba
Tunis

souks
Medina of Tunis

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