Wikipedia's first sentence called it “sufi master and poet”. Today it says “one of few female medieval islamic mystics to have recorded their own views in writing”.
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Medieval Arabic Sufi master and poet ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) ʿĀʾishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʿūniyyah ( Arabic : عائشة بنت يوسف الباعونية , died the sixteenth day of Dhū al-Qa‘dah , 922/1517) was a Sufi master and poet. She is one of few medieval female Islamic mystics to have recorded their own views in writing, and she "probably composed more works in Arabic than any other woman prior to the twentieth century." Some of her works have been translated to English in the 21st century. "In her the literary talents and Ṣūfi tendencies of her family reached full fruition." She was born and died in Damascus .
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ʿĀ’ishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʿūniyyah (born Damascus; died Damascus on the sixteenth of Dhū al-Qa‘dah 922/December 1517) was a Sufi master and poet. She is almost the only medieval female Islamic mystic to have recorded her own views in writing, and she 'probably composed more works in Arabic than any other woman prior to the twentieth century'. 'In her the literary talents and Ṣūfi tendencies of her family reached full fruition'.
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) ʿĀ’ishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʿūniyyah ( عائشة بنت يوسف الباعونية , died the sixteenth day of Dhū al-Qa‘dah , 922/1517) was a Sufi master and poet.She is one of few medieval female Islamic mystics to have recorded their own views in writing, and she "probably composed more works in Arabic than any other woman prior to the twentieth century". 'In her the literary talents and Ṣūfi tendencies of her family reached full fruition'.She was born and died in Damascus .
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Medieval Arabic Sufi master and poet ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) ʿĀʾishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʿūniyyah ( عائشة بنت يوسف الباعونية , died the sixteenth day of Dhū al-Qa‘dah , 922/1517) was a Sufi master and poet. She is one of few medieval female Islamic mystics to have recorded their own views in writing, and she "probably composed more works in Arabic than any other woman prior to the twentieth century." Some of her works have been translated to English in the 21st century. "In her the literary talents and Ṣūfi tendencies of her family reached full fruition." She was born and died in Damascus .
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sufi master and poet
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one of few female medieval islamic mystics to have recorded their own views in writing
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