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The female spiritual heritage of Islam

"The Keepers of the Secret" by Karima Berger.

© Editions Albin Michel

By: Geneviève Delrue

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World Religions - Sunday, May 1, 2022 - 11:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Paris time 

On the occasion of May 1st, we revisit

Denis Maillard

's book  "

Quand la religion s'invite

dans l'entreprise

" (Fayard),

 released in 2017, which questioned this recent phenomenon of religious claims in the world. work.

"Women are the keepers of the secret of what God wants to keep", it is from this enigmatic sentence of the Koran that

Karima Berger

delivers in her latest book

"

The 

keepers of the secret

"

(Albin Michel)

to a poetic narration and mystical to do justice to the great female figures of Islam.

For Karima Berger, it is a question of lifting the veil on a paradox in the history of the Muslim world: “the inferiority of women on the legal level and their superiority on the most spiritual level”. 

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