![]() Kecia Ali takes a very close look at the traditional jurisprudence regarding marriage as developed by early classical jurists and demonstrates how their doctrines based on an analogy to slavery and other types of ownership are “entirely inadequate” to serve as a basis for laws governing Muslim families today. Writing about Gender issues, Sa’diyya Shaikh discusses how patriarchal Muslims “discredit and malign” Muslim feminists, but shows also how some European men have “manipulated Western feminist discourse in furthering imperialism”. Ebrahim Moosa writes about how the complex Islamic tradition has been subject to “extraordinary assault in the past two hundred years from both within Muslim society and outside.” Khaled Abou El Fadl focuses on the problem from within, standing up to “those whose God is too small, too mean, too tribal and too male”. ![]() ![]() These authors delve into some remarkably uncomfortable questions. In Progressive Muslims, On Justice, Gender and Pluralism editor Omid Safi has collected fourteen essays by contemporary Muslim thinkers and activists who have taken up the challenge to implement God’s command to “enact justice ( ‘adl) as well as goodness and beauty ( ihsan), which lie at the heart of the Islamic tradition”. ![]() “… If Allah had so willed He would have made you one single Community ( ummatan wahidatan) but He wanted to test you through that which He has given you, so race to do good ( fastabiqu al khairaat)…“ 5:48 ![]()
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