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Although the Quran contains no explicit prohibition for Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men, some scholars argue that the fact that it only mentions the allowance for Muslim men means that Muslim women are prohibited from interfaith marriages. [10] Kuwaiti-American professor Khaled Abou el-Fadl writes that he did not find a single Islamic ...
[citation needed] ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (634–644) denied interfaith marriage to Muslim men during his command of the ummah. [50] Many Muslim-majority countries allow interfaith marriages to Christian or Jewish women but not to Christian or Jewish men. [51] In Lebanon for example, there is no civil personal status law. Conventionally ...
The present-day ISNA was founded in 1982 through a joint effort of four organizations: The Muslim Students Association of the US and Canada (The MSA), Islamic Medical Association (IMA), the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), and the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE) - to create a community-oriented organization ...
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Sabeeha Rehman is a Pakistani-American author and podcaster on American Muslim identity and interfaith relations.She is known for Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman’s Journey From Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim (2016) and We Refuse to be Enemies: How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship at a Time (with Walter Ruby, 2021).
In regards to interfaith marriages and partners, the rules for Muslim women are much more restrictive than the rules applied to Muslim men wishing to marry a non-Muslim. [19] The specific passages of Islamic text that address the issue of interfaith marriage are in two verses of the Quran: [20]
Being American, like 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was, does not protect us from the stigma of being Palestinian or Arab, Muslim and from the “Middle East.” Rather, these latter identities keep ...
I am a professional and I work in an area that is high-paced and intense. I don’t think people usually envision a Muslim woman in that space. I think that the main challenge is having those conversations and getting people to a place where they stop seeing me just as a Muslim, but a fellow American and person of faith. Being Muslim and being ...