I know. I know. You subscribed to this website sometime during a previous geological era (or 2011 to be accurate), and for the next seven years (until 2018) I’d updated frequently, after which I'd then kept in touch for roughly as often as Halley’s Comet. The day of this farewell you might have noticed, immediately …
Buried Banaat and Bal بل : TFF Tafsir of Prophet Lut [a.s]
as understood by Mehedi. Note: As of November 2023, The WordPress article is updated, but the PDF is an old, incomplete draft. Introduction and Methodology Anahita Nisa Sultana, writer and exegete has readily accepted the invitation from the Quran itself, to study It. Her work uncovered that Lut (a.s). clarifies homosexuality was not the sin …
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What’s different about my feminism?
A (very observant) reader wrote in after visiting the site for the first time in a couple of years and pointed out the tone on this website is palpably different since 2011-2019. She asked whether the difference was founded on any fundamental changes in philosophy. When I was in my 20s, I believed that men …
A woman has the absolute right to voice her frustrations against a Prophet. Sit. Down.
I am not aware that I love the Prophet. Unless I am in Makkah or Madina, where I can feel him in the mountains and the marketplace, I feel no love for him. (“You do love him then,” you might say, to which I would respond, not nearly significantly enough as I am expected.) I …
“Reverence the wombs that bore you”: On Unearthing a Female Legacy Transgressive to the Patriarchal Social Order
Perceptions of women’s power and authority in Islam range from Orientalist discourses that present the Muslim woman as an exotic, victimized, and elusive figure in need of reform, to patriarchal scholarships that confine her to a secondary, consequential role under male regulation, to Islamic feminist exegeses that seek to liberate her, and itself, from either …
prologue
Remember me? Yes, I'm back. I've been somewhat dormant. And I've decided to start fresh, on an entirely different note. My last few spaces, the ones I'd been consistently building up and tearing down from domain to domain since 2003, were concerned with creative work. I'd noticed for a few months now that the writing …
the fatal feminist 