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  2. Tawaif - Wikipedia

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    Tawaif Mah Laqa Bai singing poetry. A tawaif was a highly successful courtesan singer‚ dancer‚ and poet who catered to the nobility of the Indian subcontinent, particularly during the Mughal era.

  3. Kaaba - Wikipedia

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    It is the location where Muslims start their circumambulation of the Kaaba, known as the tawaf. The entrance is a door set 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) above the ground on the north-eastern wall of the Kaaba, called the Bāb ar-Raḥmah (Arabic: باب الرحمة, romanized: Bāb ar-Raḥmah, lit. 'Door of Mercy'), that also acts as the façade. [4]

  4. Sexuality in Islam - Wikipedia

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    A mufti advises a woman whose son-in-law cannot consummate his marriage (Ottoman illustration, 1721).. Sexuality in Islam contains a wide range of views and laws, which are largely predicated on the Quran, and the sayings attributed to Muhammad and the rulings of religious leaders confining sexual activity to marital relationships between men and women.

  5. Women in Islam - Wikipedia

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    The question of why Muslim women wear the hijab is still met with a variety of responses by Muslim American women, including the most popular, "piety and to please God" (54%), "so others know they are Muslim" (21%), and "for modesty" (12%). Only 1% said they wore it, "because a family member or spouse required it". [60]

  6. Intimate parts in Islam - Wikipedia

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    The intimate parts (Arabic: عورة 'awrah, ستر, satr) of the human body must, according to Islam, be covered by clothing.Most of modern Islamic scholars agree that the 'awrah of a man is the area between the navel and the knees, and the 'awrah of a woman is the entire body except the face, hand, albeit the more authentic opinion appears to be (for women) all must be covered except for the ...

  7. Islamic marital practices - Wikipedia

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    However, in non-Muslim countries, like the United States, there is no universal method for matchmaking or finding a spouse. These Muslims must use alternate methods in order to find a partner in a way that closely simulates the traditional process. Muslims in non-Islamic countries use Islamic institutions or imams to help them find partners.

  8. Muslim In America - The Huffington Post

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    If you live in a ghetto or have a ghetto mentality then the rest of the people are gonna look at you funny. So one way is to be out there in your community so that they know that you are. When you see a Muslim, ask them. We get people that ask us all the time, ‘Why do you do this’ and ‘Why do you do that.’

  9. Circumambulation - Wikipedia

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    Tawaf (طواف) is one of the Islamic rituals of pilgrimage. During the Hajj and Umrah , Muslims are to circumambulate the Kaaba ( most sacred site in Islam ) seven times, in a counter-clockwise direction.