If you really are that ambitious, here is a 2660 word essay submitted late for your enjoyment. Gendering the Qu’ran: Analysis of Amina Wadud’s Qur’an and Women (A Draft) “How can ideas that transcend gender be expressed in gendered language?” In her Qur’an and Woman, Amina Wadud asks a hard but uniquely modern question of the timeless text of the Qur’an (xii). She contextualizes the language and ideas of the Qur’an with a model of hermeneutics that is characterized by standard notions to context, grammar, and Weltanschauung, or world view. Rather than simply extend medieval exegesis, Wadud returns to the original text of the Qur’an in order to derive the fundamentals concerning Muslim women, their roles, and responsibilities. She does this through an analysis that is critical of both the cultural context of revelation, as well as the context of classical tafsir, or interpretations of the Qur’an, given that the androcentrism of seventh-century Arabia still pervades society today. She pr...
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ReplyDelete54. I love that you consider the library your playground.
55. I love that you are "low-maintenance".
56. I love that you are sappy (you are).
57. I love that you hate when i go through yellow lights.
58. I love that you talk to me to keep me up while driving home late at night.
59. I love that you clap your hands when you're happy.
60. I love how excited you get when you say my last name.
61. I love that we remind each other to pray.
62. I love that you want to fast with me.
63. Most of all, I love that you are my better half; that i couldn't ask Allah for anyone better; that you are a perfect example of the bounties of Allah; that I don't deserve you, but Allah has willed that my life be blessed with your companionship.
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar.
~Mohamed