Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives’ sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this ground-breaking, lucid, and carefully constructed work, feminist Muslim scholar D...
Ikhtilaf Malik wa 'l-Shafi'i, K. al-'Itq, “Bab ma ja'a fi 'l- sadaq,” 7:376. For a similar use of the term mutaba©i®an, see Q. 2:282. On strict and metaphorical interpretations of this term, see Ahmad, Structural Interrela- tions, 119–120.Body: literally, neck (raqaba), but metonymically, ownersh...
has been one of the most persistent and negative stereotypes of Muslims.And while it does not tell anything resembling a complete story, this image has a basis in reality. So-called triple divorce, while widely considered blameworthy even among the earliest Muslims, is nonetheless still practiced...