So tell the tale—perhaps they will reflect. (Qur'an 7:176)There are several different accounts of the Queen of Sheba--in Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and I suspect in religions and cultures outside of these--for she was an extraordinarily intelligent and open-minded queen regnant, who ruled by her own right a flourishing kingdom with expansive international trade, exceptional agriculture, …
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That feels so strange to me. Originally I typed 2011, but the combination of an lunar month and a solar year looked almost laughably wistful. Regardless of how true it may be for me that I live in 2011 (is that even true?) and not 1432, I have an almost neurotic urge to pin things …
In no particular order:Telling the imam he is wrongPraying on the men's side of the barrierWearing "alluring perfume"Refusing to eat mermaidsShowing off that I'm menstruatingMatching my bra straps with my lipgloss (overheard me saying this&actually came to lecture)Not wearing hi'jabNot putting hi'jab at the top of the listSinging/listening to music (you know they're just jealous …
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Since the devil is scheduled to be locked up this August (rest assured, evil will not cease) I thought I would research the place he is destined to live. I am a little fascinated by the geography of Hell, because apparently it's probably made of the same stuff as Heaven, according to my interpretations. But! …
No one, in neither books nor sermons, dares disagree that the Prophet's wives were great women, of great intelligence, great generosity, and great accomplishments. But as it is the nature of patriarchy to belittle those women it has failed to completely erase, rarely is there an occasion in which the memory of the wives is …
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Verse 4:34 may be the most controversial verse in the Qur'an for Muslim feminists, and the deliberate mistranslation has already been tackled in this space. But what I want to do now is examine a different part of the verse, specifically the beginning, which has also been unsurprisingly interpreted in highly questionable ways in only …
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