During the immense temporal and geographical span of the Ottoman Empire the power of women saints was defined and identified in a variety of literary and archaeological sources (Araz 1966, Schimmel 1982). Women saints were given prominent roles within the history of Sufi orders, celebrated for their piety through their inclusion in saints’ lists, and worshiped in a variety of tombs throughout the Ottoman Empire. The status and treatment of women saints as well as women devotees’ use of sacred sp…