title: My Soul is a Woman: The Feminine in Islam
author:  Annemarie Schimmel 
description: Annemarie Schimmel was for many years a Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture at Harvard University and before that Professor of Islamic Studies at Ankara and Bonn. In 1995, she was the recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
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  In the name of the Prophet—figs !!"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cry of the Turkish fig-peddler.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I PRESUME everybody has heard of me. My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia.
  This I know to be a fact. Nobody but my enemies ever calls me Suky Snobbs. I
  have been assured that Suky is but a vulgar corruption of Psyche, which is
  good Greek, and means "the soul" (that's me, I'm all soul) and sometimes "a
  butterfly," which latter meaning undoubtedly alludes to my appearance in my
  new crimson satin dress, with the sky-blue Arabian mantelet, and the trimmings
  of green agraffas, and the seven flounces of orange-colored auriculas. As for
  Snobbs—any person who should look at me would be instantly aware that my name
  wasn't Snobbs. Miss Tabitha Turnip propagated that report through sheer envy.
  Tabitha Turnip indeed! Oh the little wretch! But what c