Early Education of Aisha al-Bauniyya

 Early Education of Aisha al-Bauniyya

Ayesha and her brothers were given early education in Quran, Hadith, Fiqh and poetry by their father.

Aisha's biographer Emil Homeren, a religious teacher, wrote that she had memorized the Qur'an at the age of eight.

This biography also emphasizes the role of the Prophet of Islam in Aisha's spirituality and examines the influence of figures such as Ibn al-Arabi, al-Basiri and Ibn al-Farid.


Homerin writes that during the Mamluk period (the Mamluk dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517), Arabic, knowledge and literature flourished, and scholars and students from all over the Muslim world were attracted to Cairo and Damascus. This created opportunities for travel, education and employment. Writer and poet Ayesha al-Bawniyyah also, as a woman, overcame several social and cultural barriers to enter the realm of religious scholarship and literature.

According to Homerin's English-language biography, Aisha probably wrote more in Arabic than any other woman before the 20th century.

As a Sufi scholar and an Arab poet, his writings were by any standard extraordinary for their time. Many women in medieval Islam were respected scholars and teachers, but they rarely produced works of their own. Aisha al-Bawniyyah wrote more than twenty books and probably more Arabic prose and poetry than any other Muslim woman before the 20th century.

Homerin also translated two books of Aisha from Arabic into English. According to him, finding Aisha's word was like 'finding a needle in a haystack'.


  Ayesha is one of the few female Sophias of Islam who wrote and spoke for herself before the modern era. This gives us some important angles from a woman's perspective on women's society, Islamic Sufism and Islam in general.

According to Homer, she was always optimistic, always believing in the mercy of God, like the great Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi.


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