First and foremost, I was incredibly interested in the conversation surrounding the acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals in Islamic practice and culture. There was an interesting conflict between professional analyzation and individual judgment on hadith.
I also found myself particularly interested in how contested hadith is. I was especially curious about how the Qu’ran is a hadith but is widely accepted. By the end of the reading however, I figured that it is through isnad criticism and matn criticism that the Qu’ran is rendered an authentic hadith, wheras others are more controversial.
The ways in which people give credibility to sources was reminiscent of the talk I had to attend in elementary school on good sources versus bad. Reflecting on where our information comes from is a useful tool that allows us, as individuals, to make our own engaged judgements.
