Ryan’s Reviews > Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an > Status Update

There has been 0 theology so far. Chapter 1 is just dense philosophy of text/reading.

I love it

"To reduce what Islam is, conceptually, to what Islam has been, historically, or is in the process of becoming, would be to fail to recognise its religious quality: the relationship to the divine; the transcendent ele-ment. Indeed, Islamic truth must necessarily transcend Islamic actuality."

In all my reading of dry academic books, I have never come across someone that uses as extensive a vocabulary as this author. Like no way you know what “polysemic” means without googling it; even google thought it was a typo