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Kaluli on the northern slope of Mt. Bosavi in Papua – "Mediums are men who have married spirit women in a dream". [30] "The medium is always a man who is married (in a dream) to a woman of the invisible world. When he has a child by her, he is able to go to sleep, leave his body, and walk about in the mama world." [31]
Al-Wishāḥ was written at some point in the late 15th century by Al-Suyuti (c. 1445 – c. 1505).It was a continuation of a pre-existing genre of Arabic sex and marriage manuals tempered for Islamic audiences, a literary form that originated in 10th-century Baghdad under the influence of translations of Greek, Persian, and Indian works on the subjects of medicine and erotology. [5]
According to Islamic sources, most women in the pre-7th century Arabia had little control over their marriages. They were bound by contract for marriage or custody of children and their consent was rarely sought. Women were seldom allowed to divorce their husbands and their view was not regarded for either a marriage or divorce.
[29] Muhammad's wives play a prominent role in Islam and Muslim practices; "their reception of specific divine guidances, occasioned by their proximity to Muhammad, endows them with special dignity." [7] They form the basis for the status of women in Islam and are thus important for gender debates and study.
Fatima (c. 605/15-632) and Ali (c. 600-661) were both significant figures in early Islam: Fatima has been compared to Mary, the mother of Jesus, especially in Shia Islam. [1] [2] Muhammad is said to have regarded her as the best of women [3] [4] and the dearest person to him. [5] Ali was the fourth of the Rashidun Caliphs and the first Shia ...
Among the influences which have played an important role in defining the social, legal, spiritual, and cosmological status of women in the course of Islamic history are the sacred scriptures of Islam: the Quran; [5] the ḥadīth, which are traditions relating to the deeds and aphorisms attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his ...
Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi lived in a Josephite marriage after they had a family of four children. Josephite marriage, also known as spiritual marriage, chaste marriage, [1] and continent marriage, is a religiously motivated practice in which a man and a woman marry and live together without engaging in sexual activity.
It is implied that a noble "husband's responsibilities commit him to support his wife and children, provide education for his offspring, be kind and attentive to his spouse, and be good to his affine". [19] These values have remained rather consistent throughout the history of Islam. It is culturally understood that women do, and should, rely ...