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So who, then, had decided which words exactly, which utterances of the Prophet, were to be regarded as part of the Quran, part of the eternal sacred word of God, and which not? Who had had the power to make these decisions, and how exactly had they made them? (289)
Ahmed finds herself interested in studying Muslim women, their history and how they fit into the story of the religion. In her early investigations, she considers that the Prophet was illiterate and that the divine revelations he received weren't completely written down until years after his death.
So, who made the decisions, she wonders, to include the more misogynistic bits of verse? Her line of thought is certainly echoed in feminist readings of both Christian and Hebrew scriptures.