Early Women Writers

ʿĀ’ishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʿūniyyah

Andalusia

d. 1517

A'ishah was born in Egypt, educated in Cairo, lived in Aleppo, and died in Damascus. Extremely well traveled and educated, her prolific corpus covers nearly every territory of learning in Islam.

Dīwān al-Bā‘ūniyyah, Durar al-ghā’iṣ fī baḥr al-Mu‘jizāt wa ’l-kha-ṣā’iṣ The Diver's Pearls, al-Fatḥ al-ḥaqqī min fayḥ al-talaqqī True Inspiration, al-Fatḥ al-mubīn fī madḥ al-amīn, Clear Inspiration; al-Fatḥ al-qarīb fī mi‘rāq al-ḥabīb, Immediate Inspiration; Fayḍ al-faḍl wa-jam‘ al-shaml, The Emanation of Grace and the Gathering of the Union; Fayḍ al-wafā fī asmā’ al-muṣṭafā, The Emanation of Loyalty, on the Names of the Chosen One, al-Ishārāt al-khafiyyah fī ’l-Manāzi al-‘aliyyah, The Hidden Signs;Madad al-wadūd fī mawlid al-maḥmūd, The Aid of the Affectionate God, on the Birth of the Praiseworthy Prophet;
al-Malāmiḥ al-sharīfah min al-āthār al-laṭīfah, Noble Features, on Elegant Reports;
al-Mawrid al-ahnā fī ’l-mawlid al-asnā, The Most Wholesome Source;
al-Munktakhab fī uṣūl al-rutab, Selections on the Fundamentals of Stations;
al-Qawl al-ṣaḥīḥ fī takhmīs Burdat al-madīḥ, Reliable Words;
Ṣilāt al-salām fī faḍl al-ṣalāh wa ’l-salām, Gifts of Peace, on the Merit of Blessing and Salutation;
Tashrīf al-fikr fī naẓm fawā’id al-dhikr, Noble Thought.

Arabic

Devotional - Sufi