Talk:Isabelle Eberhardt

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There are photos of her in existence; there's one on the cover of her diaries biut I can't don't have a scanner, only a camera. As she's been dead over 100 years I'm guessing any image is Public Domain so if folk can find a good one that'd be great. Chaikney 14:44, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Bravo for the major improvement! There are some small typo's but it looks really very good! I have no pictures and even if they are old I am not sure whether they would be public domain. There are many on the web (google images: search on Isabelle Eberhardt) but they are maybe too small.--User:AAM | Talk 21:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wahhabi

"She had converted to the austere Wahabbi form of Islam and regarded it as her true calling in life." I truly doubt she was a Wahhabi for two reasons. First, the Wahabbi doctrine hadn't reached North Africa at that time (it is mainly isolated to Saudi Arabia to this day, although petro dollars have been successful in propagating it elsewhere). Second, if she was a "Wahabbi" Muslim she would have no association with the Qadiri sufi order. Historically, Wahabbis fought and massacred many sufis in Arabia, and sufism to this day is banned in Saudi Arabia. If Eberhardt participated in a Jihad that doesn't make her a Wahhabi. If there is substantial proof she was a Wahabbi, please post it, otherwise please consider revising this article.

I am not very familiar with different forms of the Islam. But look at the following reference [1] that says (quote): From a long correspondence with the scholarly Wahab before she even set foot in North Africa, Isabelle was introduced to a reformist strain of Islam known as Wahabism (sometimes Wahhabism) deriving from Ali's own family dynasty. (end quote). This seems to come from an introduction to "The Nomad, diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt" written by Annette Kobak. --User:AAM | Talk 08:07, 1 April 2006 (UTC)