About the Author

Leslie Cadavid has been working with the Arabic language since the age of 16. She attended London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, majoring in classical Arabic and Islamic art, and then Indiana University, majoring in near Eastern languages and cultures. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Reviews

What makes this account so difficult to put down is the image of this young girl being raised from birth to be a Sufi, the tenderness of the Shaykh and the esteemed place in his heart he held for women." — Mary Ann Danner, translator, The Key to Salvation, a Sufi Manual of Invocation.