Tag Archive for Women in Islam

Creatures of a lesser God

After listening to an “enlightening” oration of a young Moulana educated in the United States, who was speaking at my university on the status of women in Muslim societies, a student asked him why all the prophets were men? To…

The ulama and the rights of women

If woman is just an appendage and a ward of men, then she cannot be held accountable for her sins as a fully realized human being and thus not subject to divine judgment In my textual encounters, and now sadly…