ʿĀʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Homerin, Th. Emil
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ʿĀʾisha bt. Yūsuf b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr al-Bāʿūniyya , a prolific writer and poet, and a Ṣūfī, was born in Damascus, around the middle of the ninth/fifteenth century, and died on 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 923/30 November 1517. She was a distinguished member of the al-Bāʿūnī family, which served the Mamlūk sultans as religious officials in Syria and Egypt. She composed more than a dozen works in prose and poetry and, among women, is one of the most prolific Arab authors prior to the twentieth century. In