Malamud Gender Roles

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Malamud-Gender and Spirituality Self-Fashioning. Medieval Sufi clerics often described the association between the master and his disciples through using gender imagery.The procreative power of women was the portrayal that delineates the training and the initiation of the disciple. The mysticism and the transcendentalism of the Sufi world were to prolong throughout the conception of Silsila, the chain; in which links and traces all prominent figures of Sufi to the time and teachings of the Prophet. Throughout this chain, pupils were to abid and followed the master's injections and to show piety on all timing. Masters were to use the birth of a new disciple, spiritual existence, as a trope that portrayed him as a recent progeny; Sufi's guides

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