Home & Family

This book contains selected contributions presented during the workshop “Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?”  which was convened in...

The Indian Muslim girls were not allowed to sit in the classroom because they were wearing Hijab, or headscarf....

Even though the first wife’s content in a man’s second marriage isn’t necessary and, thus, you’re marriage is religiously legal, morality is one of the great elements of...

A study has found the name of Islam’s prophet Muhammad is the UK’s most popular name for boys in the UK....

In glorifying the position of a mother, Islam has not confined itself to advice, injunctions and a series of verbal counsels, but as a legislator, it has also regarded the command and prohibition by a mother as...

According to Islam, the family is a small social unit that makes up the society. This small unit is formed of a woman and a man and is extended by producing children. Members of a family have a close relationship and common goals and...

The radio, television and cinema are very useful inventions. They can be very good tools for training and education. The tenets of faith and moral values can be propagated through these media....

It is true that the boys attain the age of responsibility (Baligh) at fifteen and the girls at age nine. This is the age when the juridical norms become mandatory for...

This ethnography provides a theoretically informed account of the educational journeys of students in girls’ madrasas in...

This article has been developed through the contents of a lecture delivered by Shaykh Saleem Bhimji in Edmonton, Alberta in 2011 to mark the martyrdom of the sons of...