In the last month, there have been several conversations on Facebook on the patriarchy (and racism too but just patriarchy for now) of male academics. Each time it happens, I want to blog about it, and then I’m too tired from the violence of the male academics who participate in those conversations defensively, arrogantly, and emotionally. So here goes it at last. In a recently conversation on my Facebook on […]
Link to the video here, script below.
The next video in this series (on Kecia Ali’s Sexual Ethics & Islam) is up finally! Script below the video: Bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm. Hello, salaam, and welcome to #whatthepatriarchy?! where we are working to completely uproot the patriarchy from Islam. #inshaAllah #onebookatatime. One feminist book at a time. Today, we’re continuing our discussion of Kecia Ali’s classic Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence. This isthe […]
If you haven’t read it yet or heard about it yet, there’s an excellent book by Ayesha Chaudhry that just came out. I had the complete joy of interviewing her for it for the New Books Network. It’s the only book I’ve ever read that I could connect so wholly with. It’s relatable in so many ways, and it was such a necessary read for me at a time when […]
This information is for non-Muslims and recent converts to Islam, or anyone who has questions about Ramadhan. So the month of Ramadhan has begun. This is the most sacred of all the months of the Islamic calendar (lunar) and is identified commonly as the moth of fasting. This is also the month that the Qur’an, the ultimate scripture of Islam, was first revealed in. Muslims believe also that every good […]
The following is a (rough!! very rough!) script of the video on Intro & Ch. 1 of Kecia Ali’s classic Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on the Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (2006 & 2016). Link to the video: https://youtu.be/C7VPGdTw9Mw Hello, pa khair [welcome in Pashto, my native tongue], and assalamu alaikum wr wb! Welcome to hashtag what the patriarchy where we strive to uproot the patriarchy from Islam. Thank […]
The following is a (rough!! very rough!) script of the video on Intro & Ch. 1 of Kecia Ali’s classic Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on the Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (2006 & 2016). Link to the video: Hello, pa khair [welcome in Pashto, my native tongue], and assalamu alaikum wr wb! Welcome to hashtag what the patriarchy where we strive to uproot the patriarchy from Islam. Thank you […]
Next episode of What the Patriarchy?! is now published! In this video, we talk about all things hijab/veil (the head-covering). This include Muslim men and women’s and non-Muslims’ conversations about it; its origins; why some Muslim women wear it; the problem with the word “choice” in whether Muslims wear it by choice; the hijab/veil in the Qur’an and hadiths (and how the head-covering isn’t fardh in the Qur’an, actually); and […]
The latest video on the vlog is up! Link: https://youtu.be/GxKZMLQlkns. Script below. Hello, and welcome to #WhatThePatriarchy, where we are working to uproot the patriarchy! Thank you for being here with me. This is Shehnaz. Today I want to talk about the Prophet Muhammad – the prophet of Islam, objectively one of the most important humans to have ever lived, certainly the most important man in Islam. I want to […]
Alhamdulillah I had some energy and lots of inspiration to produce the next video for your favorite YouTube channel, What the Patriarchy?! You can view it here: https://youtu.be/-3fv2jAZtt8. It’s ~21 minutes long. I’m pasting here the script to the video. I don’t think I departed much from it, so! ❤ Hello and assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuhu! Welcome to #WhatThePatriarchy, where we are working on destroying the patriarchy from […]
Salaam, all! I’ve just published my latest video on YouTube. In this episode, we discuss Fatima Mernissi’s book The Veil And The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation Of Women’s Rights In Islam.I address some of her main points and then in detail discuss some of the specific topics she covers, such as female leadership (turns out, that hadith on nations not succeeding if they let a woman lead is false!), […]
Freedom from the Forbidden 