When mothers rule: The right to choose from a Sufi perspective

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	When mothers rule: The right to choose from a Sufi perspective

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5-5-2009 3:00 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9392ebe2-18ee-4e2a-9beb-377dbbc7e888/D0E9E751-5121-4511-9CAF-9E0E791ABA3F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fw-magazine.com/content/when-mothers-rule-right-choose-sufi-perspective" href="http://www.fw-magazine.com/content/when-mothers-rule-right-choose-sufi-perspective" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fw-magazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fw-magazine.com/content/when-mothers-rule-right-choose-sufi-perspective"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.fw-magazine.com/img/1DDB46B8-9944-450E-B29C-B78C07ED3A5E" alt="25252525.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fw-magazine.com/content/when-mothers-rule-right-choose-sufi-perspective">Motherhood in Sufism has a distinct set-up that varies<SPAN> </SPAN>greatly from what I like to call “TV-branded popular Islam.”<SPAN> </SPAN>In the Naqshbandi path, thriving in Damascus and the path I<SPAN> </SPAN>personally follow, motherhood overrides fatherhood; it has<SPAN> </SPAN>greater jurisdiction over siblings, futures and marriage. A<SPAN> </SPAN>mother’s role in Arab societies is usually boiled down to<SPAN> </SPAN>being the secretary of the general manager (i.e. the husband),<SPAN> </SPAN>but in Sufi tradition, she is “the” captain of the ship. 
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This said, women who used to sit with Prophet<SPAN> </SPAN>Mohammad – in the same mosque and room with men – to<SPAN> </SPAN>learn from him at the dawn of Islam, have been eclipsed in<SPAN> </SPAN>school text books, TV religious programs, and everything<SPAN> </SPAN>that communicates the current image of<SPAN> </SPAN>Islam. 
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