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>>13478656
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGm4vRJsV7A

What are some good books on the difference between Ash'ari (determinism, divine command theory) and Maturidi (free will, right and wrong exist in themselves) schools of Islam? Or failing that, books on one or the other.

>>13022003

The Quran

>True liberation for women cannot be achieved by rejecting religious or moral dictates, Islam claims. Wearing skimpy clothing, being promiscuous, and abusing addictive substances as much as men do does not make one equal nor is it healthy. Many Muslim women have taken on this issue and have asserted that it is modern Western woman who needs liberating from the sexual control of men. In America and elsewhere, women are presented as objects with no value beyond their physical attributes. Popular movies, music, books, and advertising messages force women to compete with each other in dressing up for the attention of men. Rape, pornography, wife abuse, and other forms of violence against women have been called epidemic in official U.S. government reports. Islam, these Muslim women say, would end all of that.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGm4vRJsV7A

>True liberation for women cannot be achieved by rejecting religious or moral dictates, Islam claims. Wearing skimpy clothing, being promiscuous, and abusing addictive substances as much as men do does not make one equal nor is it healthy. Many Muslim women have taken on this issue and have asserted that it is modern Western woman who needs liberating from the sexual control of men. In America and elsewhere, women are presented as objects with no value beyond their physical attributes. Popular movies, music, books, and advertising messages force women to compete with each other in dressing up for the attention of men. Rape, pornography, wife abuse, and other forms of violence against women have been called epidemic in official U.S. government reports. Islam, these Muslim women say, would end all of that.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGm4vRJsV7A

>>12890667
Wrong, it is the feminism of Abrahamic thought

Last week we started a reading group of three surahs a day. If you couldn't manage it, that's fine, it is quite a bit for the early surahs. But by all means, discuss what you have read!

You may notice that God tends to refer to Himself in the plural first-person pronoun. I see the reason for this as the same as the Jewish explanation: God is referring to Himself and His angels (who have no free will in Islam and always speak and act for God). Why do I suggest this? Because when God is speaking of Himself in a context that wouldn't involve angels, he uses the singular first-person (examples, 2:33, 86:16).

For translations of the Qur'an I suggest Arberry for secular, Pickthall for Islamic, and The Study Qur'an for extensive traditionalist commentary. I would not suggest Sahih International. Compare
91:5

Pickthall:
>And the heaven and Him who built it,
Arberry:
>By the heaven and That which built it
Sahih International:
>And [by] the sky and He
who constructed it


This is a good introduction to Islamic theology

>Any conception of a being without attributes is mere supposition. Differences in opinion in this regard are nothing in reality and the essence of each opinion is the same. Thus all worthy attributes like creativity, justice, mercy, compassion, knowledge and wisdom are validated as the personal attributes of God and precede their effect because the cause of everything precedes its effect. Consequently, it is said that even after destruction of this world the grandeur and majesty of God shall continue to exist with full grace

https://www.javedahmedghamidi.org/#!/mizan/5aa6a4315e891e8f44a45788?chapterNo=2&subChapterNo=0&subChsecNo=1&lang=en