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"the ethical injunctions of Islam were rarely translated into enforceable laws.  Only texts that orthodox theologians, legists, and philosophers (the likes of Al-Ghazali) created were--and continue to be--regarded as the core prescriptive texts of Islam.  [b]But Ahmed also makes it clear that this intense misogyny was neither originally nor exclusively Muslim in character, but rather the consequence of a cultural negotiation between Islam and "an urban Middle East[/b] with already well-articulated misogynist attitudes and practices":
          [B]y licensing polygamy, concubinage, and easy
          divorce for men, originally allowed under
          different circumstances in a different society,
          Islam lent itself to being interpreted as
          endorsing and giving religious sanction to a
          deeply negative and debased conception of women. " [/quote]

Islam did license polygamy, concubinage and easy divorce for men, and none of its existing scholars have ever said that these rules aren't applicable anymore.  I agree with Ahmed that those were allowed under different circumstances in a different society, but not a single strain of contemporary Muslim scholarship says Islam needs to do away with these rules.  These rules aren't a part of cultural practices or tribal customs. I mean they were originally, but they are enshrined in law and in the Quran itself.  You occasionally find people who say concubinage is verboten (thank you Mr. Sistani!), and people who say if the laws of your country prohibit polygamy, don't be polygamous (thank you Dr Badawi but he did get a barb in that the West is being intolerant by allowing gays to marry but banning Muslims from more than one wife), but I have never ever seen a single scholar arguing for making divorce for men harder.  [/quote]

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