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Menstruation in Islam relates to various purity related restrictions in Islamic jurisprudence. [1] [2] The ḥayḍ (Arabic: حيض) is the religious state of menstruation in Islam. [3] [4] The Qur'an makes specific mention of menstruation in al-Baqara 2:222: And they ask you about menstruation. Say, "It is harm, so keep away from wives during ...
The Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research is an independent American research institute and think tank founded in 2016, mainly interested in the advanced study of modernity, Islam and Muslim societies. [1] It works to aggregate complex Islamic topics for audiences outside of the field of Islamic academia.
The jurists said that the case of a woman's menstrual period (istihadha) does not waive the obligatory prayer on her behalf, because this woman is pure and can read and recite the Quran, and since the ruling on istihadha blood is different from the impurity of menstrual blood, it is sufficient for a woman's menstrual period to purify herself of blood that is in excess of her usual monthly ...
Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America Jane Idleman Smith is an American scholar of Islam and former professor of Comparative Religion at Harvard University . [ 1 ] She is currently Professor Emerita of Islamic studies at Hartford Seminary .
One of such dominant views of menstruation attributable to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage is the view of menstruation as a curse, and in communities influenced by these three religions, the view of menstruation as a curse is conjoined with the notions of stigma and pollution. Through these notions, menstruating women and girls are ...
The Institute, established in 1952 by Wilfred Cantwell Smith, is the first institute of Islamic studies in North America. During a visit to India in 1976, an arrest warrant was issued for Shaikh Kutty under The Emergency (India) declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ’s administration mainly (for his translation work with Islamic Publishing ...
Dr. Marsh is best known for his examination of the Nation of Islam in The Lost-Found Nation of Islam in America (Scarecrow Press, Inc. 1996). The book follows in the tradition of C. Eric Lincoln's The Black Muslims in America which first introduced the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X into the American consciousness.
Hallaq's teaching and research deal with the problematic epistemic ruptures generated by the onset of modernity and the socio-politico- historical forces subsumed by it; with the intellectual history of Orientalism and the repercussions of Orientalist paradigms in later scholarship and in Islamic legal studies as a whole; and with the synchronic and diachronic development of Islamic traditions ...