Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Anne H. Betteridge, “Muslim Women 

and Shrines in Shiraz.” In Everyday Life in the Mus-

lim Middle East. 2d ed., edited by Donna Lee Bowen 

and Evelyn A. Early, 276–289 (Bloomington: Indiana 

University Press, 2002); P. M. Currie, The Shrine and 

Cult of Muin al-Din Chishti of Ajmer (Oxford: Oxford 

University Press, 2007); Muhammad Umar Memon, 

Ibn Taymiya’s Struggle against Popular Religion (The 

Hague: Mouton, 1976); Yitzhak Nakash, The Shiis of 

Iraq (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), 

163–184; Christopher S. Taylor, In the Vicinity of the 

Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in 

Late Medieval Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999).