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Amina Wadood's work ‘Qur’an and women’; rereading the sacred text from a women’s perspective,’ is a pivotal work in Islamic feminism. Trying to contain Islam in a feministic vessel, the group’s demand for reform continues. The struggle is to reform Islam in accordance with liberal values. Their aspirations...

Occasionally hit by questions patterned ‘isn't Islam anti-feminist?’ and probed by other incidents, I asked myself to list women scholars in Islam. Apart from the Ummul mu’minīn, no women appeared in my head. However, upon questioning a few, I found that many were in the same boat as I was.  'Where...

I was watching the MAS-ICNA youth talk on YouTube, and the speaker was a young woman. Amongst many things she said, she also talked about family. She quoted the Prophetic hadith, “The best amongst you is those best to their families” [1], which made me think: What makes family a yardstick to measure...

While mentioning the word ‘leader’, a shepherd might be the last thing that will cross one’s mind, if it ever does. Now, why is shepherd the most deserving to be metaphorized for leadership? What relevance does a shepherd have in the modern world? In the chessboard of the world leadership, Jacinda Ardern,...

People’s tendency to approach ‘flaws’ and strengths of people, as a chemical equation is hilarious. Flaws are painted as inevitable side effects of creativity. Screens inject the idea that certain flaws exist to balance the creative equation. Flaws are stretch marks that remain, a reminder of a prodigy’s...