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Haddad's Attack on Wadud and Progressives |
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Written by Laury Silvers
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Sunday, 19 March 2006 |
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In honor of Amina Wadud's woman-led congregational mixed-gender prayer last year in New York City we are going to do an odd thing. We are posting a link to an essay that is an attack against Wadud, woman-led prayer, the Progressive movement, and Islamic feminism.
The best way to honor Wadud's prayer is to know the nature of the struggle.
Gabriel F. Haddad's article is comprehensive in his use of traditional authorities and arguments. It also mischaracterizes Wadud's work and the methods and goals of the Progressive movement in some significant ways. I'll let the article speak for itself for a week, then I will post a brief response. I believe some differences of agreement will be irresolvable. But I also believe there is common ground between Progressives and the most conservative traditionalists. Perhaps there will be no common ground with Haddad himself, but God knows best. I read once the best way to deal with anger towards someone is to pray for him or her. I've got a lot of praying to do. How is this for a start: May God help Haddad and I come to find some common ground in support of one another over female authority in Islam. Amin.
Please click through to a pdf of Gabriel F. Haddad's An Innovation of Misguidance: Amina Wadud's Unenlightened Feminism.
With Peace and solidarity, Laury Silvers
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Written by 'Guest' on 2006-03-21 09:38:05
While I appreciate your call for dialogue, I don't get the impression from the article that its writer is in a dialogic mode. The idea of woman-led prayer is profoundly threatening to a tradition-based worldview for a number of reasons, but particularly because taking it seriously would entail acknowledging that a serious rethinking of traditional views of gender is necessary. Also, female American converts are supposed to make born Muslims feel better about themselves ("Islam is the fastest-growing religion..."), not raise difficult questions. | yes, well.....
Written by 'Guest' on 2006-04-01 19:47:54
I'm still trying to get up the umph to dialogue. I'm working 10-12 hour days. Dialogue may have to wait. Maybe after Wrestlemania is over. Seriously, all I can do is hold out my peace, see what happens.
Laury | http://anarchomuslim.blogspot.com/
Written by 'Guest' on 2006-04-30 09:15:47
I got as far as the first half of page 2 of Gabby's eruditious polemic before alarms started squeeling inside my head. Is he falling down in reverence for the Shariah? The Qur'an? No, this time, it's the Muslim scholarly tradition, as invented by Muslim scholars in the fifeteenth century (see Hodgson/Sardar). And obviously, any departure from that leads to Muslim fantasies of Euro-American liberalism. Sigh!
Wasalaam
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