Zaid Shakir - Masculine and Feminine: Gender In Islam

Zaid ShakirDecember 13, 20180 comments

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In this lecture, Imam Zaid Shakir critically examines various strands of modern feminism — including third wave, lesbian, and postmodern anti-binary feminism — through an Islamic lens, articulating why Muslims should find each problematic. He then offers a positive alternative grounded in Quranic verses and prophetic teachings, presenting the concept of a "Muslim feminism" built on the complementary partnership between men and women, shared moral responsibility, and devotion to God as the foundation for addressing real injustices facing women today.

Imam Zaid Shakir is an American scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. Born in Berkeley and raised in housing projects in Georgia and Connecticut, he embraced Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force. He earned degrees in international relations and political science, then studied Arabic and the Islamic sciences for years in Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. A former imam of Masjid Al-Islam in New Haven, he teaches at Zaytuna and lectures nationally on Islamic spirituality, social justice, and the Black American Muslim experience. He is regularly listed among the most influential Muslims in the world.

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