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Wayfarers of the Inner Landscape

A Feminist Sufi Perspective

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At the Intersection of Selves and Subject

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One is the source. It is Eve’s womb, not numbered, not counted, but the source. While Pythagoras and others may have imagined that the source was male, we reimagine it as the womb, the feminine. “When woman’s estranged voices are expressed and heard, the world can be different” (Wang, 2004, p. 88), and perhaps different is what we need right now.

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Thomas, S. (2017). Wayfarers of the Inner Landscape. In: Lyle, E. (eds) At the Intersection of Selves and Subject. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-113-1_9

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