Tag: Marriage in Islam

  • Women and Divorce From The Islam­ic Perspective

    Women and Divorce From The Islam­ic Perspective

    The position of women in an Islamic marriage institution has always been a question among the critics outside Muslim world. Islam is accused for not giving the fair right to women as compared to their husbands, and this include in the matter of divorce.

  • Qadi Iyad : The Sto­ry of Zayd and Zaynab

    Trans­lat­ed by Aisha Bew­ley from Muham­mad, Mes­sen­ger of Allah, Ash-Shi­fa of Qadi ​‘Iyad, Mad­i­nah Press, Grana­da (1991), pp. 352 – 354 Edi­tor’s Note In address­ing the polemics of Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies and Ori­en­tal­ists regard­ing the mar­riage of Zaynab (R), Qadi Iyad’s thor­ough analy­sis of the Islam­ic tra­di­tion pro­vides a pow­er­ful counter-nar­ra­tive. He metic­u­lous­ly dis­sects the con­text and the scrip­tur­al bases…

  • Of Pre­pu­bes­cent Girls and Moral Impli­ca­tions : The Young Mar­riage of Aisha

    Of Pre­pu­bes­cent Girls and Moral Impli­ca­tions : The Young Mar­riage of Aisha

    Unfor­tu­nate­ly, in today’s cli­mate, there seems to be a sig­nif­i­cant focus among Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies and Islam­o­phobes on dis­cred­it­ing Islam. This is espe­cial­ly true when dis­cussing the mar­riage of Muham­mad(P) to Aisha(R), a top­ic that seems to be under more crit­i­cism now than ever before. As a result, we are see­ing a mul­ti­tude of mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tions and dis­tor­tions aimed at twist­ing…