Muslimah
Arab couples seek educational compatibility
Source : Diana Al-Jassem | Arab News
JEDDAH | 11 Dec 2010
Although there are many reasons for divorce among Arab couples, different levels of education tend to be the main reason why many part ways, say experts.
A marriage between a husband not as educated as his wife is more likely to end in divorce, they add.
They claim women also find it difficult to marry men not as educated as them for social, psychological and economic reasons.
Booth rejects Blair’s ‘Islam is a threat’ doctrine and becomes a Muslim
Source : Shabana Syed | Arab News
05 Dec 2010
The news that Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s sister-in-law converted to Islam, not only surprised but sent shock waves mainly through the world media.
The initial surprise was followed by a derogative campaign ridiculing her both on a personal and professional level. She was mocked for saying she had given up drinking and eating pork and for wearing a head scarf and reading the Qur’an. Jokes revolved around how she had managed to only reach Page 60!
As a white American convert, let me tell you about Islam
Source | The Charlotte Observer
Posted: Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010
From Lindsey Faraj, a student at UNC Charlotte:
Salma Al-Farouki: Rediscovering Islam
Salma Al-Farouki simply oozes class when she walks into the Arab News offices for our interview. Wearing a simple turban and purple dress combination, finished off with pearl earrings and eye kohl, she emanates warmth, intelligence and wisdom.
Al-Farouki is also the wife of Roger Garaudy, the French philosopher well loved in the Islamic world and very much the pariah in the West thanks to certain controversies with his 1996 book, “The Founding Myths of Israel,” which was accused of containing elements of Holocaust denial.
Payments to and from the Bride in Islamic Law and Tradition
Questions about mahr/dowry etc.
by
Sr Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood.
1.Could you explain what 'mahr' or bride-price is within the context of Muslim marriage?
Islam, Culture and Women
Islam, Culture and Women
by Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
How can anyone justify Islam’s treatment of women, when it imprisons Afghans under blue shuttlecock burqas and makes Pakistani girls marry strangers against their will?
How can you respect a religion that forces women into polygamous marriages, mutilates their genitals, forbids them to drive cars and subjects them to the humiliation of “instant” divorce? In fact, none of these practices are Islamic at all.
Women in Islam
WOMEN IN ISLAM
by
Sr. Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
‘Whoever does good works, man or woman, and has faith, truly to such We will give a new life, a life that is good and pure, and We will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions’. (Surah 16:97)
