Ep. 3 | Women in Shi’ism: Ancient Stories, Modern Ideologies

An informative discussion with Dr. Amina Inloes, who discusses her book, Women in Shi‘ism: Ancient Stories, Modern Ideologies.

Dr. Amina Inloes is also a co-translator of Spiritual Mysteries and Ethical Secrets, and a contributor to the Tafsir al-Mizan translation project. She completed her PhD at the University of Exeter on Shi’i hadith and is currently a lecturer at The Islamic College in the United Kingdom.

Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, the third installment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation.

0:00:00 / Introduction

0:01:48 / How do we negotiate some of the inherent imperialist and white supremacist agendas when discussing women in Islam or Shīʿism?

0:11:15 / How do you deal with classical literature without superimposing interpretive models pertaining to contemporary notions of patriarchy?

0:13:18 / Are all ideas about women in Shiʿa hadith eternal for the human condition?

0:16:36 / Discussing the outline of the book

0:19:47 / Why does Eve occupy a prominent role in your book compared to Fatima, as an example?

0:21:43 / If Fatima is an exception to the norm, then what other women can be studies in Shiʿa hadith?

0:26:43 / The connection between Eve and the Ahl al-Bayt

0:31:45 / Discussion of a sample hadith from the book

0:35:08 / Creation of Eve and the supposed connection to Islamic divorce law

0:39:13 / Discussing hijab and its history in Arabia

0:42:53 / Why the sample hadith does not meet the demand of legal evidentiary value

0:48:30 / The notion of women as property as per the book?

0:51:51 / Connection between the Abbasid era and certain understandings about women

0:53:34 / How do you deal with the question of Islamic rulings being related to sociological norms of the time? How far can this go?

0:56:40 / How did Muslims in the formative period understand the law, and why in that specific way?

0:59:05 / The figure of Fatima, Kitāb Sulaym b. Qays and anti- misogyny in Shiʿism

1:07:38 / Conclusion

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