Aisha al-Ba'uniyya was one of the greatest women mystics in Islamic history, a Sufi master and Arab poet who composed over twenty works. A sixteenth-century biographer once called her "one of the marvels of her age," and Th. Emil Homerin's biography takes up that assessment as its subject, offering the first full-scale English-language treatment of her life.

Published by Oneworld Academic in 2019 as part of the "Makers of the Muslim World" series, this 192-page edition brings a significant figure in the history of Muslim women's scholarship to English-language readers for the first time in this depth. For anyone drawn to the Sufi tradition and the lives of those who shaped it, this is a welcome addition to the shelf.