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 …
Category: misconceptions
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 …
The Unrecognized Prophetess
When she had delivered, she said: “O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!” —and God knew best what she delivered— “And no wise is the male like the female. I have named her Maryam (Mary), and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected.” …
Intentional Malice: The Exclusiveness of the Sexes, Collapsing of Sex and Gender, and the Superiority of the Male
I want to talk about a verse that has appeared on this site without previous examination because it is so clear in its meaning, and extract from it a deeper understanding of the Quranic approach to sex and gender and these supposed strict “gender roles” that patriarchs insist are dictated in the Qur’an. Reverence Your …
Sunnah.
Sometimes I imagine Medina, a city graced with the presence of our beloved Prophet whose pure heart received the Revelations of God. Medina, open to the Heavens. Did the average woman, walking along the busy market streets, or perhaps the quiet roads, stop to stare up at the sky--overcome with tears for the Revelations from …
The Qur’an Is Blatantly Anti-Patriarchal
This entire post adds commentary to Asma Barlas' book "Believing Women in Islam": Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an. I highly recommend it. Reverence Your God Who created you from a single person Created, of similar nature, its mate and from them twain scattered like seeds countless men and women;-- Reverence God, through Whom ye …
Disregarded Verses: Deciding What is Halaal and Haraam
Lately, I have been reading scholars replying to the written concerns of practicing Muslims, and found that so many of these scholars violate the undeniable orders dictated in the Qur'an by forbidding that which God has not forbidden. And they do this through the use of hadith. As an example of these violations, I've already …
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