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  2. Gender roles in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Gender roles in Islam are based on scriptures, cultural traditions, and jurisprudence. The Quran, the holy book of Islam, indicates that both men and women are spiritually equal. The Quran states: "Those who do good, whether male or female, and have faith will enter Paradise and will never be wronged; even as much as the speck on a date stone." [1]

  3. Women in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Other Muslim-majority states with notably more women university students than men include Kuwait, where 41% of females attend university compared with 18% of males; [149] Bahrain, where the ratio of women to men in tertiary education is 2.18:1; [149] Brunei Darussalam, where 33% of women enroll at university vis à vis 18% of men; [149] Tunisia ...

  4. Muslim In America - The Huffington Post

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    Being Muslim in America means… “I think there’s always a certain level of bias initially when people meet you. Especially for me as a Muslim woman, they’ll be surprised. 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.

  5. Islamic feminism - Wikipedia

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    Since the mid-nineteenth century, Muslim women and men have been critical of restrictions placed on women regarding education, seclusion, veiling, polygyny, slavery, and concubinage. Modern Muslims have questioned these practices and advocated for reform. [1] There is an ongoing debate about the status of women in Islam.

  6. Early social changes under Islam - Wikipedia

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    Donna Lee Bowen writes in Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an that it was "common enough among the pre-Islamic Arabs to be assigned a specific term, waŹ¾d " [10] Some historians believe it was once common, but had been in steep decline in the decades leading up to Islam, [11] while others believe it occurred with some regularity as a means of birth ...

  7. Islam and gender segregation - Wikipedia

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    Rasoulallah.net – entries about Women in Islam; Sultan.org – Islamic portal dealing with many points related to women in Islam; Women in the Qur'an, hadith, and fiqh/jurisprudence; Behind Closed Doors with a Girl – Shia Perspective on being alone with a member of the opposite gender Archived 2016-06-17 at the Wayback Machine

  8. Islam and domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    A number of women in British India between the years of 1920 and 1930s left Islam to obtain judicial divorce because Hanafi law did not permit women to seek divorce in case of cruel treatment by a husband. Mawlana Thanawi reviewed the issue and borrowed the Maliki rulings which permits women to seek divorce because of cruelty by the husband.

  9. Human rights in the Quran - Wikipedia

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    The ability of women to bear children is a significant attribute used by the Quran in a number of verses to uplift the status of women. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] One such chapter states "And We have enjoined man in respect of his parents--his mother bears him with fainting upon fainting and his weaning takes two years--saying: Be grateful to Me and to both ...