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  2. Women in the Quran - Wikipedia

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    She is considered to be the first woman to choose "God and His Prophet" over "the world and its adornment". [7] In Sura 33:28–29, God ordered Muhammad's wives to make a decision as to their preference, after Muhammad was annoyed by the wives' growing desire for material possessions. [7] Aisha is also important in mainstream Sunni Islam.

  3. Gender roles in Islam - Wikipedia

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    In her writings, Fatema Mernissi said that “if women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Qur'an nor the Prophet Muhammad, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite”. [43]

  4. Women in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Although the Quran doesn't explicitly require Muslim women to cover their faces or heads, the observance of sexual modesty and plain dress for both Muslim men and women is prescribed by the ḥadīth literature and sunnah (deeds and sayings attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions); [2] the practice of mandatory veiling is ...

  5. An-Nisa, 34 - Wikipedia

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    Darimi, a teacher of both Tirmidhi and Muslim bin Hajjaj as well as a leading early scholar in Iran, collected all the Hadiths showing Muhammad's disapproval of beating in a chapter entitled 'The Prohibition on Striking Women'. A thirteenth-century scholar from Granada, Ibn Faras, notes that one camp of ulama had staked out a stance forbidding ...

  6. Haya (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    Abdullah Bin Umar narrated that the Prophet, once passed by a man who was admonishing his brother regarding Hayaʾ saying: "You are too shy, and I am afraid that might harm you." On that, the Prophet: "Leave him, for Hayaʾ is (a part) of Faith" and in another narration, he said: "Hayaʾ does not bring anything except good." —

  7. Wives of Muhammad - Wikipedia

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    [20] [21] [22] Muhammad used to manage her caravans; and Khadija, being impressed by the skills of Muhammad, sent a proposal to the Islamic prophet. [23] Around 595, the couple married, and this marriage, his first, would be both happy and monogamous; Muhammad would rely on Khadija in many ways, until her death 25 years later.

  8. Aisha - Wikipedia

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    Their Medina is a society in which Muhammad designated women like Umm Waraqa as spiritual guides for the Ummah; in which the Prophet himself was sometimes publicly rebuked by his wives; in which women prayed and fought alongside the men; in which women like Aisha and Umm Salamah acted not only as religious but also as political—and on at ...

  9. Islamic feminism - Wikipedia

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    Mernissi argued in her book The Veil and the Male Elite that the suppression of women's rights in Islamic societies is the result of political motivation and its consequent manipulative interpretation of hadith, which runs counter to the egalitarian Islamic community of men and women envisioned by Muhammad. [38]