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Circumcision being performed in Central Asia, c. 1865–1872. Restored albumen print.. The Quran itself does not mention circumcision explicitly in any verse. [1] [4] [2] [7] In the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, both male and female circumcision were carried out by Pagan Arabian tribes, [1] [2] [7] and male circumcision was performed by the Jewish tribes of Arabia for religious reasons.
Circumcision is widely practiced by the Druze: [65] practiced as a cultural tradition, and has no religious significance. [66] No special interval is specified: Druze infants are usually circumcised shortly after birth, [67] however some remain uncircumcised until age ten or older. [67]
In some cultures, males are generally required to be circumcised shortly after birth, during childhood or around puberty as part of a rite of passage. Circumcision is commonly practiced in the Jewish and Islamic and Druze faiths and in Coptic Christianity and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
Studies suggest that about 62% of African males are circumcised. [23] However, the rate varies widely between different regions, and among ethnic and religious groups, with Muslim North Africans practising it for religious reasons, central Africans as part of ethnic rituals or local custom, and some traditionally non-circumcising populations in the South recently adopting the practice due to ...
Male circumcision is among the rites of Islam and is part of the fitrah, or the innate disposition and natural character and instinct of the human creation. [143] Circumcision is widely practiced by the Druze, the procedure is practiced as a cultural tradition, [144] and has no religious significance in the Druze faith.
Jews and Muslims on this windswept island in the Atlantic Ocean find themselves united against a proposal to ban ritual circumcisions.
The ritual is usually performed soon after birth, it takes place on the knees of the kerîf (approximately "godfather"), with whom the child will have a life-long formal relationship. [32] Circumcision is forbidden in Mandaeism, [33] and the sign of the Jews given to Abraham by God, circumcision, is considered abhorrent by the Mandaeans. [34]
Circumcision likely has ancient roots among several ethnic groups in sub-equatorial Africa, Egypt, and Arabia, though the specific form and extent of circumcision has varied. Ritual male circumcision is known to have been practiced by South Sea Islanders, Aboriginal peoples of Australia, Sumatrans, and some Ancient Egyptians. [1]