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More of Zaida’s Writings

I hope that everyone enjoyed the series on Zaidism; the Zaidiyyah Muslims within Shia Islam seem to only be getting smaller and smaller and even Zaida’s blog is now inactive. My hope is that by doing this it’ll keep the movement alive. You can also find some of her other blogs linked below: ismailismblog pro-ahulbait-sunnism Zaydiyyah’s Blog Unfortunately, they are also all inactive but they have…

Zaidism and Women’s Liberation [Comments]

Here are some of the other interesting comments from the previous articles that I thought would contribute to the discussion. Mariam87August 3, 2010 at 12:51 AM What a fantastic article!! Zaidism is paving the way for womens rights in the Islamic world by setting clear rights for women. Its really interesting to read first-hand how a Saudi Woman feels. We so often judge their plight from the…

Here is another article about Zaidism from Zaida’s blog. 1. The Role of an Imam: The role of the Imam is to carry on the Prophet’s task, including the carrying out of Divine Justice, writes a scholar from Imam Rassi Society: “As human beings, the prophets are bound by the finality of death. This means that the prophet must be succeeded by either another prophet, or a leader who subsequently…

The Role of the Prophets: A Zaidi Perspective

Here is another post from Zaida’s blog. There is a link between the Prophets,a just society, and Divine Justice, writes a scholar from Imam Rassi Society: The role of prophets was multifold. They served as living, breathing visual representations of the Creator reaching out to His creation.  One of the prophetic functions was to perfect and correct concepts of the Deity that were subsequently…

Here is another post from Zaida’s now-dead blog about Zaidism. I hope that by reposting these articles that the movement will not die out. In a detailed article, a 12-er Shi-ite has expressed the view that Zaidism has an unsuccessful history, therefore it is not the version of Islam that people should prefer. Interesting argument, but it calls into question, how does one measure success in this…

Is Zaidism a sect?

Zaida writes: In my view, Zaidism is really Islam without the additions that have happened by various groups during the past centuries. The Zaidis of Yemen, unlike the Sunnis, Hanbalis, Wahhabis and Shi-ites of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Arabia, did not introduce the following concepts/practices to Islam: The hidden imam, infallible imams, anthropomorphism, fatalism, the kasb theory of appropriation,…

As a part of my series about Zaidism, here’s another post written by Zaida on her defunct blog about Zaidiyya Islam on November 7th, 2010. As mentioned in some previous posts, my current faith has been heavily influence by Zaidism but this is where the Zaidiyya movement and I differ. I’m not a big fan on the “Sunnah,” regardless of how you interpret them, as I’ve also written about previously,…