It thus implies a different approach from that of Shemeem Abbas which focussed on “female voice” in Sufi Rituals (2002, Austin, University of Texas Press). In other words, her book questions “how women are able to exercise authority in the shrine setting despite a lack of official sanction for that authority” (p.
She seeks to understand how it is possible for them to “develop a sovereign consciousness that both imbibes and rejects elements of a dominant framework of reference”. Pemberton’s book draws on a number of issues like the gender issue and also subaltern studies since she locates women as a subaltern group. Kelly Pemberton, Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India, Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2010.
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