I'm familiar with the name Amina Wadud, I recall there being a controversy in which she allegedly called Prophet Ibrahim (alayhi salam) a "deadbeat dad", in reference to him leaving his wife and son in the desert as he was commanded to by Allah at the time.
She sounds like a weirdo.
Amina Wadud is a kaffir. Alhamdulilaah, I don't think we really have anyone like her on here besides maybe an open ex-Muslim here and there.
And I'm not being takfiri when I say Wadud is a kaffir- she's said multiple kufri things and she even put out a video saying she doesn't believe in jannah and jahannam- I think I have it saved somewhere.
I don't understand her- what does denying the existence of jannah and jahhanam have to do with standing up for women?
Even though I don't identify with feminism myself, I don't take kindly to the dismissive way it is handled by some Muslim men who write off our legitimate struggles as women as us blindly following liberal feminism (which the specific branch of feminism that deviates from Islamic thought the most).
I don't think you're a feminist. Feminism like liberalism branches from philosophy. Notice how all three follow the same method:
Reason > Revelation. Philosophy- and then liberalism and feminism, which are its children; they all follow the method of putting fallible human reasoning in front of infallible revelation, giving precedence to reason.
And Amina Wadud follows this method, as does every famous feminist philosopher I'm aware of. This is why Amina Wadud rejects the existence of jannah and jahannam- obviously, she's taking reason not revelation as her starting point (and this is clear from her book I read).
Okay but do you put reason before revelation? Do you advocate that? I think it would an act of injustice to try to place you with the Amina Waduds and Simone de Beauvoirs of the world. I don't agree with everything you say but those are actual genuine kaffirs and I don't think you as a Muslim should be grouped with them. People should give you your rights and treat you with the respect you're entitled to as a fellow Muslim.
It carries the arrogant implication that we're devoid of individual critical thinking and don't have strong enough belief in Islam to sift through the questionable aspects of feminism.
I do want to say- delving into philosophy is very dangerous and it isn't something to do with feminism or male or female... nor is it even just to do with critical thinking.
When you read philosophy- whether it's Aristotle or bell hooks- you need to be armed to the teeth with authentic Islamic knowledge. If someone doesn't know the Islamic ruling on something- and then they read a philosopher talking about it... they might get pulled in by the philosopher and unwittingly adopt a view that is contrary to the Islamic view.
The thing that people have to do is focus on the Islamic knowledge. Once you have a solid base in Islamic knowledge, then from there you can expand and conquer, making other, lesser fields subject to the superior Islamic knowledge. The Islamic knowledge must come first. Therefore, it is right that Muslims should be warned against delving into philosophy.