Muhammad didn’t marry her at 9. It was fabricated later by narrators to praise Aisha.

Ibn Ishaq (earliest source) reports that Aisha converted to Islam in first 3 years (610-613) of mission

Aisha must be at least 5 years old in 613. Marriage occurs in 623 when she is age 15

https://twitter.com/pearlythingz/status/1666183218230427652

@pearlythingz if you’re going to go based on accepting Sunni Muslim sources, the same sources tell us Aisha was not prepubescent when the marriage occurred. At best the sources contradict each other and the earliest Muslim sources negate her being 9 at marriage

Furthermore, medieval Tafsir spans hundreds of commentators with different views. Muslims aren’t beholden to imitating medieval Tafsir as Tafsir isn’t credal or prescriptive. Same with medieval Fiqh - even a Sunni can update many premodern Fiqh rulings with exception of ‘ibada.

https://twitter.com/drjavadthashmi/status/1664808171758825472

Sunni Ottoman Caliphate abolished dhimmi status jizya in 19th century & granted equal status to Muslims / non-Muslims as Ottoman subjects. They weren’t deemed apostates for this reform. This shows you can be a committed Muslim - here THE Sunni caliphate - without dhimmi/jizya

Historically speaking, a plurality of Sunnis if not majority of Sunnis participated in the institutions of Sufism - by way of tariqa affiliation, shrine visitation or partaking in Sufi dhikr, Sama’, poetry sessions. NeoSalafis like FullMetal view many Sufi shrine rituals as shirk

https://twitter.com/FullmetalTheist/status/1609701374417051649

Alexander Knysh, Islamic Mysticism: A Short History, 1-2

Sufism became a dominant feature of the Muslim social order…a spiritual & intellectual glue…Sufism retained its pervasive influence on the spiritual & intellectual life of Muslims until the beginning of the 20th century.

There’s ABSOLUTELY no scriptural or rational argument that women in Muslim society who don’t wear hijab should be criminally punished. Prophet never punished women for this. People like you are guilty of innovation & playing God when you implement Fiqh rules as nation-state laws

https://twitter.com/HATzortzis/status/1574666792597090305

In fact, the Muslim jurists only mandated hijab for free Muslim women meanwhile slave Muslim women in Islamic society didn’t wear hijab & walked in public with uncovered hair, face & sometimes arms & legs. It’s bcuz hijab was very much a token of social status not exactly modesty

Thread: How did the Umayyad Caliphs understand & articulate their own religio-political status to their subjects & competitors? Crone & Hinds work remains one of the best resources in English for this. Below I share some excerpts from "God's Caliph". Mu'awiya, the son of Abu Sufiyan who was the Prophet Muhammad's arch nemesis & adversary, styled himself as God's Caliph with no reference to Prophet Muhammad. Mu'awiya said: "The Earth belongs to God and I am the Deputy of God" per Balahduri.

Thread: I created this chart to present the internal diversity of Islam from an inclusive & pluralist lens. This is how I teach Islam in the academy. I have tried to show important branches that emerged from larger groups -even if said branches no longer identify as Muslim The Sufi Turuq & Theological schools in this chart are NOT meant to appear as separate from Shia & Sunni, but rather, as embedded within those branches. That is why the Sufi & Kalam schools are not in boxes, since their ideas pervade many communities.

Thread: This week I came across work of Yasin Dutton, “Orality, Literacy and the 'Seven Ahruf’ Hadith” published in Journal of Islamic Studies 2012. I want to summarize his arguments with some screenshots & then raise implications for the earliest concept of Qur’anic revelation The article focuses on Hadiths where Umar/Ubayy hears someone recite a Qur’anic Sura differently than what he heard from Prophet. He takes this person to Prophet & reports difference in recitation. The prophet says that both are correct & Quran was revealed in 7 “modes” (ahruf).