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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now that we've gone off topic, I have a question for Muslim poster, who wrote:

[b]She had no idea about sura Ash Shurra and the verse that addressed men AND women on how to resolve (political) matters that required collective opinions. She could not read Arabic so she had no idea the language used in that verse was plural, addressing women too. [/b]

I don't see how the plural used shows definitively that both men and women were being addressed.  In Arabic, the same plural is used when it is men only being addressed or men and women being addressed.  I don't know what grounds one would use to say one or other was meant.  All that we know is that women only were not being addressed as that is a different plural.[/quote]

So it's like French and Spanish, if only in the sense that you use the masculine plural for a group that could either consist of both men and women, or just more than one men.  [/quote]

Yes, except it is not just nouns and adjectives but also verbs that have masculine and feminine plurals, with the masculine plural being used where there is at least one man or masculine item.  I didn't look up the passage Muslim PP referred to but it likely uses a masculine plural noun and verb.

There is also a dual in Arabic for referring to two people or things.  There is a masculine dual and a feminine dual for nouns, adjectives and verbs, with the former used where a male and a female or a masculine and a feminine item are the subjects.[/quote]

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