“He Cried and Made Others Cry”: Crying as a Sign of Pietistic Authenticity or Deception in Medieval Islamic Preaching

doi:10.4324/9780203807750-15

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The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, passed by a Jewish woman whose relatives were crying over her and he said, “You are crying over her, and she is being tormented in her grave.”1