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Isabelle Eberhardt was born in Geneva in 1877, she spent much of her short adult life in Algeria where she converted to Islam. She travelled through the Sahara and became of the few Europeans ever to have been initiated into Sufism, she also produced a small but exceptional body of writing. In May 1904 Isabelle sets out from Ain Sefra, and the second portion of the book Sud Oranais reports on Isabelle's journey on horseback. Her destination was the zawiya Ziyania in the Kenadsa. The greater part of her body writing is devoted to weeks at the zawiya, variously focusing on the marabout and everyday life in the Ksar. For Isabelle this travel signified the begining of a new life, the end of her exile in a hostile West to more hospitale and congenial Sahara, a kind of spiritual hejra. Isabelle's articles as the basic cell of her travel, did not become a subject of scientific research and sociological ground, and the privilage, but at the present time.
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