By Mary Ali and Anjum Ali (edited by IslamReligion.com) Description: The various civil, social, political and economic rights which have been given to women in Islam. Today people think that women are liberated in the West and that the Women’s liberation movement…
By Mary Ali (edited by IslamReligion.com) Description: Polygamy in Islam in comparison with other religions and modern society. Part 2: Polygamy in Islam. Among all the polygamous societies in history there were none that limited the number of wives. All of the…
By Mary Ali (edited by IslamReligion.com) Description: Polygamy in Islam in comparison with other religions and modern society. Part 1: Polygamy in history and modern Western society. Polygamy has been practiced by mankind for thousands of years. Many of the ancient Israelites…
By IslamReligion.com Description: The history of polygamy and its legal status in the religions of Judaism and Christianity. Polygamy is not a practice limited to the religion of Islam; rather, it is something well-known in the history of the People of the…
By IslamReligion.com Description: An exposition on the hypocritical and ethnocentric Western attitude on polygamy. Polygamy in the global community is common, normal and accepted. According to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook[1] derived from George P. Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas recorded the marital composition of 1231 societies, from 1960-1980. …
By IslamReligion.com Description: A glimpse of the concept of polygamy in Islam. Islam is criticized for allowing polygamy, for popular culture in the West views polygamy as relatively backward and impoverished. For many Christians, it is a license to promiscuity, and feminists…
By AlJumuah Magazine Description: Refutation of a common myth that states Islam was spread by the sword and that people were forced to become Muslims. It is a common misconception with some non-Muslims that Islam would not have millions of adherents all…
By islam-guide.com Description: A look at the various principles of Islam which show that Islam is truly a mercy to the world, and the indiscriminate violence and terrorism is not condoned by the religion. Islam, a religion of mercy, does not permit…
By Imam Mufti (© 2013 IslamReligion.com) Description: The article discussed three issues: (a) slavery in Judeo-Christian tradition (b) pre Civil War slavery in the US (c) modern slavery. First, a knowledgeable Jew or Christian knows full-well that slavery is discussed in the…
By Hamza Andreas Tzortzis (hamzatzortzis.com) Description: The problem of evil has troubled humankind since time immemorial. This article gives the Islamic perspective on it in a simple and logical way. Part 5: Some of the reasons God has given for the existence…