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My relationship to religion became a little bit more fraught. So, that initial relationship to religion was all about these beautiful characters who … - Sa'diyya Shaikh
" "My relationship to religion became a little bit more fraught. So, that initial relationship to religion was all about these beautiful characters who had incredible virtue and valour and courage and spiritual refinement and beautiful adap. That was formative for me thinking about in living Islam and the things that inspired me and the things that were shown up to me as a mirror of goodness.
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About Sa'diyya Shaikh
Sa'diyya Shaikh (born 1969) is a South African scholar of Islam and feminist theory. She is a professor of religion at the University of Cape Town. She studies Sufism in relation to feminism and feminist theory. She is known for work on gender in Islam and 'Ibn Arabi.
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As a child, I used to relish these greatly, and it was the part of Islam that resonated for me; they were pretty much for me. These people that my father used to tell me stories about struck me a little bit like superheroes; they were my spiritual superheroes, and I was very inspired by them. So that was quite influential in my life and in my formation.
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