Theological discussions of the attributes of God indicate very clearly...

Theological discussions of the attributes of God indicate very clearly, however, that there are feminine and masculine aspects of divinity and even that the feminine has priority.[^1] Now, as Wolfson has argued in his study of Islamic theology,[^2] discussions of the names and attributes of God play a role in Islamic theology comparable to discussions of the Trinity among Christian theologians.

So, not only is the Islamic concept of the divinity free of the male bias present in the concept of the Trinity, but the closest thing we can find in Islam to the idea of relations internal to divinity discussed in Christianity in terms of the Trinity is the idea of the divine names and attributes in which not only is there an absence of bias against the feminine, but the feminine is dignified as paramount.

God's mercy precedes His wrath.[^3] Feminism As Cultural Imperialism Feminism has long been a favorite weapon in the arsenal of the colonialist…