Islam and the Divine Feminine

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Islam and the Divine Feminine

 

So often has Islam been portrayed as an exclusively masculine,

patriarchal faith that many have never suspected the central

importance of the Feminine in Islam and would be astonished to

realize that it has been there from the beginning. Perhaps in part

due to the metaphysical interiority of the Feminine, this aspect of

Islam has lived a largely hidden existence — but it is no less vital

for that. In recent years there has been much discussion and

controversy over how to reshape Christianity to include the Feminine

on the divine level, but in Islam that has never been an issue, for

the feminine element in Islam has always been present, especially in

Sufism.

 

Although both masculine and feminine equally have their origin in the

Divine, I would like to take a special look at the feminine in Islam

to help redress the balance because the feminine side of Islam has

been mostly overlooked so far. Moreover, in the sources of Islam and

in the Sufi tradition growing from there, we find a distinct,

explicit preference for the feminine aspect of Allah, especially the

nature of ultimate Divine Reality as essentially feminine.

 

The Polarity of Divine Majesty and Beauty

 

The distinction between male and female is ...

 

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