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If Women Controlled Ijtihad
Last week news emerged of the latest fatwa admonishing women against bananas, cucumbers and other phallic edibles. In the same week, I engaged in a discussion regarding the dwindling role of ijtihad...
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Public Prayer: Bigotry and Beauty
A few days ago the phenomena of hate-reading was aptly described over at Jezebel. It made me smile, for I have long been a perpetrator of this, but lacked a definitive name and explanation for it. My...
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Sukayna, Islamic Feminist
A terribly bland post title for an utterly extraordinary woman: Even as early as the first years of Islam, women had the courage to oppose the system […] the Prophet’s own great-granddaughter, Sukayna...
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Dial-a-Divorce
I’m working my way through Ziba Mir-Hosseini‘s seminal work Islam and Gender and it is proving as much as a remarkable piece of scholarship, as it does frustration. Consider the contradictory laws of...
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Women in the Quran, Graphic
“Women in the Quran” by Everitte Barbee, created using Quranic verses: Umbrella tip to @tololy.
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Conservative > Liberal via a Tunnel
The image below is one of those delightfully provocative ones – and I rue all the more that the photographer passes uncredited since it was shared via Facebook from a Tunisian friend: If known, do let...
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Eid with a side of snow
As the snow fell steadily it felt at once as if it had never left and never fell before. Summer has morphed with unexpected quickness into winter – perhaps because the days of sun were scant and autumn...
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Best of the Rest: Steal | this | Hijab
A caution: this is the point at which I robustly hold forth on what I will claim to be my latest blogscovery, despite the reality that in this instance, the gem of a site has been running since April...
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The Idea of an Idea of Haram
Dinosaurs have become the latest targets of the KSA virtue squad: A lady in Dammam, the hub of the oil industry on the kingdom’s Gulf coast, tweeted a complaint from a local shopping mall. Agents of...
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Rania Matar: The Veil
Rania Matar’s project ‘The Veil: Modesty, Fashion, Devotion or Statement?’ provides a uniquely insightful and captivating array of monochrome images, here. Feeling threatened in a world that sees any...
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Eid with a side of snow
As the snow fell steadily it felt at once as if it had never left and never fell before. Summer has morphed with unexpected quickness into winter – perhaps because the days of sun were scant and autumn...
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