Encountering diversity: Feminine perspectives on islam, memory, and epistemic trust

Abstract

This essay justifies the imperative of adopting civil, lenient attitudes toward members of other communities, whether religious or professional. It begins to integrate certain historically male-or female-dominated knowledge traditions. It analyzes two areas of inquiry into the human past-memory and acts of remembering and paleo-history narration and modes of epistemic trust. It compares certain truth claims, observing where they contradict or overlap. It finds that appearances of fundamental disagreement shrink significantly with adoption of a pluralist ethic. It argues that Muslim women have profound but underrated capabilities to make these understandings resonate across human communities everywhere.