Nothing is beyond the reach of a people
When their feet are firmly in the stirrups.
‘Why?’ I asked Abu Abdullah. He’d just told me: ‘From now on there’ll be no more university.They make so many mistakes when they teach sharia, especially how they teach it to the harem.’ ‘Harem’ was his way of referring to women. We’d never discussed my studies, and I hadn’t felt the need to ask him if I could go and register for my second year. He just came out with it, and wouldn’t answer me when I asked him why. He’d just say ‘A hurma must obey her husband.’
His words made me think of Sheikh al-Marwi’s fatwa. Perhaps Abu Abdullah sensed from my expression that I wasn’t entirely convinced by his decision. He quickly added: ‘There are differing opinions among the jurists and the religious scholars on th
