You asked, we answered! "Are there any Islamic reasons for the Taliban to ban women from attending university, or are the reasons cultural or political?" Dr. Shabir Ally says his interest is in Islamic arguments. He says the arguments commonly made to restrict women's education don't align with the Quran's emphasis on pursuing knowledge or the reality that women in early Islam were actively trading in knowledge. He says the Taliban is fearful that any sort of mingling between men and women will lead to adultery but cautions us to think of the big picture and recognize that a degree of tolerance for sin must be built into the system. This latitude is already built into Islamic law. Dr. Shabir reminds us that even after guidelines about interactions and clothing were established in the Quran, women were active, to the extent that Aisha led a group of people into battle. So women were not excluded from society.

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