Describing the Muslims we live with (The Signs In Ourselves, Part 2 of 12)
How would you explain the interaction of Islam with politics, geography, and history in your social context to diverse Muslims from somewhere else?
Liy Yusof
Finding language to describe our diversity (The Signs In Ourselves, Part 1 of 12)
What do we know to be true about ourselves? To begin articulating the Truth of diversity, we start by exploring gender and the language we use to self-describe.
Expanding the Muslim knowledge tradition for gender justice
Muslims believe that the Qur'an is timeless in its benefit. To understand meaning in the Qur’an in any location or time after revelation, tools and concepts in Qur'anic sciences were created. Diverse Muslims can use these traditional tools towards achieving justice in our lived realities today.
Socrates, sense-perception, and the Quran
"This is what the earlier Muslim students of the Quran completely missed under the spell of classical speculation."
A transcendent affiliation
When Muslims eventually created their own calendar a dozen years later, they looked back and decided this was the year it began.
Listening to interfaith feminists in Southeast Asia
The discourse of faith and feminism in Southeast Asia is exciting and prolific, but often overlooked.
On finding the love of my life: Year in Review 2019
I entered 2019 with only one idea: to leave behind the idea that someone else is the love of my life. To be the love of my life.
Coming out vs. coming in
"Coming in" is to think about inviting or allowing someone to "come in" to your life.
My lifetime will speak for itself: 5 questions
I have been in the mood for big frameworks, and nothing feels bigger right now than these five questions which I’ve adapted from a hadith and invite you to, if it feels right.
Season finale vibes, 2019
Cloth and climate change
Isn't what is really irrational the belief that any piece of (the) material can conceal us from our own actions in full sight of the Divine?
At the intersection of Pride and Eid
Maybe pride is the courage to not let fools kick us out of our faith.