When the sun is overturned When the stars fall away When the mountains are moved When the ten-month pregnant camels are neglected When the beasts of the wild shall be mustered When the seas are boiling When the girl-child, buried alive, is asked for what crime she deserved murder, When the sky is flayed open …
Category: Islam
Enforcements by the Prophet of the Principles of Equality in Islam, and the Leveling of the Feminine
Once the Prophet was with a man whose young son came to him, and the man kissed his son and lifted him onto his lap. Then the man’s daughter came and he sat her in front of him. The Prophet asked, “Why did you not treat them equally?” (al-Haythami) Even for something as minor as …
Aasiya bint Mazahim, Queen of Egypt
Aasiya, the Queen of Egypt during the time of Prophet Musa (Moses), was a woman with faith and determination so strong that the greatest tyrant could not shake her values. Centuries later, the Prophet Muhammad named her as one of the best women of Paradise, and in the Qur’an she is an example to which …
The Western Muslim Woman, Part III
The last installment. This little series has felt quite tentative, possibly because I’d attempted to discuss an expansive subject in three parts. An appreciative ‘thank you’ to anyone who tolerated the disorganized writing and disheveled thoughts between essays and finals. I hope that somewhere in the midst of it all I managed to make some …
The Western Muslim Woman, Part I: Constructions of Race and Appropriation
I’d like to say that finals are in a couple of weeks, and though the actual testing itself will not be keeping me from this blog (I can’t study even if I try) the number of research papers due by the end certainly will. Entries until mid-December may be uncharacteristically infrequent or brief. Lately I’ve …
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Islamic Interpretations–Learning Rugged Individualism from Fatimah bint Qays and A’isha
Over the centuries the greatest loss to the Islamic community has not only been the lack of vigilant participation of strong, opinionated, and unrepentant women but the increasing intolerance of differences in jurisdictions without breaking Islam into sects. The differences that today divide the faith into militant segments had once in fact unified it, because …
Appreciating Social Justice from the Unseen
I want to talk about ji’had (struggle), and I want to talk about it at its most basic elementary level to demonstrate how it relates to social justice, and, is essentially, at the core of striving toward it. And I want to do this by considering the configuration of human beings. God began the creation …
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