Status Updates From Rebellious Wives, Neglectfu...

It’s so surprising how some of the struggles we have today related to men and women’s issues, especially in marriage, run so deep and are not new at all.

this book is brilliant i learned a lot from it, i cant believe classical exegetes directly ignored at-tabari's egalitarian reading for 2:228 in favour of their own misogynistic ones even though they literally cited from him

just finished chapter 4 "neglectful husbands", interesting and eye-opening stuff esp in regards to ibn ashur

Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī : “One of the impediments to understanding [the Qurʾan] is to read a particular interpretation and then assume that no further meaning could be added to the Qurʾan beyond what was transmitted from Ibn ʿAbbās or Mujāhid and to view everything after them as tafsīr bi’l-raʾy; this is among the greatest veils [to understanding the Qurʾan].”

"Nowhere has the question of divine intent been as pressing for muslims in the past two decades than in the field of women and gender in the Qur'an"

I'm going to love this book.