Let’s talk about homosexuality, which my previous article does not. I actually don’t like the term “homosexuality,” and I prefer the title of this article, but I’m using the word here because I know you all are searching it when you’re looking for my legal opinions on this website. No one, not even patriarchal scholars, …
Category: marriage
Removed from Societal Context: Verse 33:53, the Veil, and the role of Umar
Umar, the only corrupted caliph of the first four, publicized stoning as a punishment for adultery, a penal ordinance that does not appear in the Qur’an and was delivered by the Prophet in cases when the adulterer was non-Muslim, such as the case of a Jewish woman in Medina whose people had agreed to an …
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“When are you getting married?” or, Why We Need Married Heroines
While I was East Coasting it recently, the 10-year-old daughter of one of my friends dashed through the door of my hotel room and flipped herself onto the bed. “Where have you BEEN?” Everywhere. The answer was everywhere. But seeing as I don’t live anywhere near her, it was a peculiar question. I ran my …
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Quranic Verses and Misconceptions: Divorce and Male Privilege
A common practice before the introduction of Islam—and continuing afterward illegally despite severe restrictions by the Qur’an on the gratuities of men in pre-Islamic divorce—was for a man to perpetually divorce his wife, each time pretending to take her back and divorcing her again to coerce her either to surrender her dower for autonomy or …
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Women in Islamic History: the Unlawful Erosion of Monogamy and the Correlating Objectification of Women
After divorce or widowhood, women in the first Muslim societies married and remarried without the disparagement of social stigma. It was not until the Abbasid era, upon the conquering of immensely patriarchal cultures and the expansive harems that arose in consequence, that the contractual rights of monogamy enforced by women began to erode, and the …
Islam, interfaith marriage, broken hearts, and human rights
A little over a year ago I was speaking to a friend who had known me for two years and, in his own words, fallen in love.You can probably guess what I told him. Here's a summary: "I can't be with you, you're Christian, and besides that I'm not looking to get married any time …
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