Question

Two answers in the original language required. In a khutba addressed to the “ghuraba,” or the strangers, Ghazala Anwar argues for a genderfluid reading of Allah using these two names. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give these two most frequently-invoked names of Allah whose common trilateral root also forms the Arabic words for “womb” and “mother’s love.”
ANSWER: ar-Rahman and ar-Rahim [accept al-Rahman and al-Rahim; prompt on Most Gracious and Most Merciful] (“Womb” in Arabic is rahm; “mother’s love” is rahmah.)
[10h] Anwar argues for the porosity of gender difference using this thinker's concept of barzakh. This scholar held that “humanity unites male and female, and in it maleness and femaleness are contingencies, not a human reality.”
ANSWER: Ibn ʿArabī [or al-Qushayri; or Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-ʿArabī al-Tā’ī al-Ḥātimī; accept ash-Shaykh al-Akbar; reject “ʿArabī” alone]
[10e] Anwar holds that practicing Islam guided by divine rahma makes one part of the ghuraba, whose strangeness she links to a theory named for this term. That theory named for this term studies deviations from heteronormativity.
ANSWER: queer

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Cornell AChicago A10101030
Cornell BChicago C0000
Georgia Tech AOhio State A001010
Georgia Tech BPenn State A010010
Illinois AWUSTL B001010
Maryland AFlorida A001010
North Carolina ATexas A1001020
Purdue ANYU A001010
Stanford AWUSTL A1001020
Toronto ANorthwestern A001010
UC Berkeley AHarvard A001010
Yale AChicago B1001020