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Satisfying a Man’s “Needs”: Enhancements and Halal Sex


Posted by eren on 28 Jul 2016 / 0 Comments
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Over the past few years MMW has often covered issues of sexuality and women’s pleasure, particularly because the ways in which Muslim female sexuality and pleasure are framed not only in the media, but also among Muslims themselves, tend to be quite problematic. Muslim women’s sexuality has made it to the headlines on a number […]

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“The Polygamist is Political”: Muslim Women and the Issue of Polygamy in the West


Posted by eren on 14 Jun 2012 / 0 Comments
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A few months ago, while reviewing one of my friend’s profiles on Facebook, I was surprised to see the amount of discussion that Shari’ah rulings regarding marriage provoke in the West. My friend, an orthodox Sunni Muslim and avid follower of the Hanbali school, had commented in a picture from 2010 that depicted Malaysian women […]

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Nothing is worse for a Saudi man than imagining himself a woman


Posted by Guest Contributor on 16 Aug 2010 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by Eman Al Nafjan and originally appeared at her blog Saudiwoman’s Weblog. Every Ramadan for the past sixteen years a show called Tash Ma Tash, which means something in the literal lines of “splash what may,” is closely watched by almost every Saudi household. The show is a satire of Saudi […]

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Big Love: Appropriating Feminism in Advocating Polygamy


Posted by alicia on 30 Sep 2009 / 0 Comments
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Stories about polygamy tend to surge and ebb in the media, but they never fail to intrigue people. Recently in South Africa, a Zulu man married four women–all at once–making the most popular story on the BBC news website (you can watch the clip here). In the video, a male wedding guest gives a thumbs-up […]

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Always an Unregistered Wife, Never a Bride


Posted by faith on 20 May 2009 / 0 Comments
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When I first read the BBC’s article on Tajik women who are left destitute because their Islamic marriages (nikaah) were not recognized by the secular government in Tajikistan, I have to admit that I cringed and felt a bit defensive. Here was another story portraying Muslim women as poor victims of Muslim men but, even […]

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