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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 ...
Marital conversion is religious conversion upon marriage, either as a conciliatory act, or a mandated requirement according to a particular religious belief. [1] Endogamous religious cultures may have certain opposition to interfaith marriage and ethnic assimilation, and may assert prohibitions against the conversion ("marrying out") of one their own claimed adherents.
Turkey allows marriages between Muslim women and non-Muslim men through secular laws. [52] In Tunisia since 16 September 2017, Muslim women can lawfully marry any man of any faith, or of none. In Malaysia, a non-Muslim must convert to Islam in order to marry a Muslim and the offspring of such unions are automatically Muslims. [53]
[3] Marriages within the Muslim community are incredibly important. The purpose of marriage in Islamic culture is to preserve the religion through the creation of a family. The family is meant to be “productive and constructive, helping and encouraging one another to be good and righteous, and competing with one another in good works”. [4]
The study also shares that "In some cases, the Islamic marriage contract is completed once the couple has decided to get married, but cohabitation occurs later after the wedding reception. In other cases, the Islamic marriage contract is completed simultaneously with the civil marriage and is followed immediately by the wedding reception." [73]
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 ...
According to Clinton Bennett, British–American scholar of Religious studies, one's declaration of the Muslim profession of faith does not imply faith in God alone, since the conversion to Islam includes other distinct Islamic beliefs as well as part of the Muslim creed (ʿaqīdah): [23]
In the holy book of Islam, the Quran, Sura An-Nisa [8] gives a fairly detailed list of what sort of marriages are prohibited in Islam, (including "your fathers' sisters, and your mothers' sisters, and brother's daughters, and sister's daughters, and your foster-mothers") but does not include first cousins, [9] and ends by saying: "Lawful to you ...