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Indeed, Muslim scholars and leaders have long been doing what I call "the 4:34 dance" -- they reject outright violence against women but accept a level of aggression that fits contemporary definitions of domestic violence. [3] Feminist writer Amina Wadud writes in her book, ''Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam'': [1]
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]
[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.
Hadith Sahih Bukhari (9:89:252) states that a man is expected to be the "guardian of [his] family," whereas a woman is expected to be the "guardian of her husband's home and his children." [6] In some Muslim-based countries, women are legally restricted from practicing certain rights. [7]
Whilst traditional Islamic scholarship upholds the notion that Islamic law permits polygyny and furthermore enforces the divine command to "marry only one" where the man fears being unable to fulfil the rights of two in a fair manner, a substantial segment of the Islamic scholarship elaborates further on the ruling regarding men who are able to ensure complete equality amongst the multiple wives.
Although Islamic marriage customs and relations vary depending on country of origin and government regulations, Muslims from around the world are guided by Islamic laws and practices specified in the Quran. [1] Islamic marital jurisprudence allows Muslim men to be married to multiple women (a practice known as polygyny).
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In Islam, the belief that spiritual entities—particularly, jinn—can possess a person, a thing or location, [1] is widespread; as is the belief that the jinn and devils can be expelled from the possessed person (or thing/location) through exorcism.