Sailan Muslimah

Safe Female circumcision Dr. Sit Elbanat Khalid Mohamed Ali Obstetrician Gynecologist Khartoum University – Sudan 2- 2 -2009 Contents 1 – The Female Prepuce ((Clitorial Hood )) . 2 – Female Genital Anatomy and Sexual Dysfunction. 3 – Clitorial Un hooding. 4 – Medical Studies . 5 – Personal reports. 6 – Female Circumcision: “Prohibition or Allowance?”      Islamic & Medical …

Women, too, are encouraged to avail themselves of the multiple benefits which the mosque offers. In a hadith (tradition), the Prophet explicitly encouraged women to participate in the good deeds as well as the religious gatherings and activities of the faithful believers (da’wah al-mu’minin) (Sahih al-Bukhari). The Prophet said that if a woman asks for permission to go to the …

Dzenana Brkic from Bosnia was born blind but that did not stop her from becoming an inspirational  writer who encourages others to achieve their dreams. Dzenana Brkic (22) is a very brave young woman from a small town Busovaca (Bosnia and Herzegovina). She was born blind. Given the hard circumstances during the war in Bosnia (92-95), not much could be …

This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a refugee from Iraq, to talk about refugee crises driven by war. Sabia recently returned from Kabul where she helped document the young Afghan Peace Volunteers’ efforts …

Muslims of Sri Lanka are governed under Muslim Personal Law. This means that in the areas of marriage, divorce and inheritance, all Muslims of this country will find themselves in a situation at some time or the other that will ensure they get to know about Muslim personal law. When I was quite young, I discovered that if my parents …