Oh hello. I just remembered I have a site. This month I’ve been having to quietly confront a lot of the tedious issues in the Islamic community regarding gender equality in everything from back entrances to whom is served first and what portions during the communal breaking of the fast at the mosque. All the …
Category: Islam
Ramadan 2012
Ramadan is upon us, with alarming speed. (And what I wrote the previous year about a solar year accompanying a lunar month still applies.) I wasn’t going to write an entry for Ramadan this year; while maintaining its characteristic celestial quality the month simultaneously feels procedural at this current point. My family, having grown accustomed …
Your author calls the adhan.
The adhan is the Islamic call to prayer. For whatever reason, I've discovered a recording. So! If you care to listen: Allahu Akbar God is [the] Greatest. Allahu Akbar God is [the] Greatest. Allahu Akbar God is [the] Greatest. Allahu Akbar God is [the] Greatest. Ash-hadu an-la ilaha illa llah I bear witness that there …
Sparkly Pink Niqaab
I'm sorry but this is too awesome not to give its own post. via Afshan
Reclaiming Shari’ah: (Part III) the Significance
Equality, liberation, and justice are actively preserved, not merely obtained and expected to survive unchecked and abandoned; thus, a power struggle over the applications of Quranic interpretation will always prevail with relevance in the future as it has for the previous centuries. As the feminist message of the Qur’an is exposed, the justification for gender …
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Reclaiming Shari’ah: (Part II) the Opponents
Discrepancy between the ideal vision of an Islamic state as one that adheres fully to the employment of the shari’ah as perfect law embodying the integrity of Islam and the reality of the actual implementation amounting unimpressively to policing women’s bodies and exercising a pre-Islamic model of social gender relations is often attributed to Muslim …
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Reclaiming Shari’ah: (Part I) the Process
While nearly all Muslims believe with their own understanding the Islamic scholars who claim that justice and equity are intrinsically incorporated into Islamic principles and thus the shari’ah (the laws derived from those principles), most countries that claim to be guided by the shari'ah do not reflect these laws of justice and equity, especially not--despite …
the fatal feminist 