I map how Sufism resides at the heart of Muslim spirituality and has fundamental implications for thinking about gender in terms of law, virtue and e… - Sa'diyya Shaikh
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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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My book is about reading critically and constructively against the grain, and claiming a particular space within the Muslim tradition to talk back to patriarchy. It is about claiming an authority within the tradition not for me, but for a certain voice of radical human equality which resides within the tradition.
Sufism is about embodying virtue. That virtue should extend from within oneself to society, an integral part of the spiritual life. Importantly justice is one of the central virtues in this tradition. The challenge to contemporary Muslims is to formulate dynamic and relevant understandings of justice for our times.
A lot of my engagements with religion emerged out of those kinds of formative experiences: a deep kind of immersion and a desire and a yearning for the kinds of spiritual treasures that were part of the stories of my childhood, and then wrestling with injustice and thinking about human dignity, human equality, and justice as being central to thinking about a relationship with God.
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