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Gender Equality

The aim is not to deconstruct Islam, but to radically reconstruct the tradition from within; in particular, to incorporate ongoing human intellectual developments, with a specific integration of gender as category of thought. In addition, at the epistemological level, the aim is to leave open the idea... that the Ultimate is unknowable. What humans have come to know as the divine always evolves within the limitation of mundane human knowledge against the ultimately unknowable divine. Allah cannot be fixed any one moment, any one text, and any of the multiple interactions with that text. But as human knowledge and epistemology continues to develop, so do human ideas about Allah. Most importantly , the pro-faith agenda created a mandate to include women, women's experiences, and perspectives in reformulating the creeds and codes on the basis of underlying principles essential to being human within the Muslim intellectual processes.

- Amina Wadud

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