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Laws of Islam Concerning Ritual Purity and Cleanliness

 

Summaries, with complete referencing, of key source texts

for the laws of Islam concerning

filth, cleanliness, ritual impurity and purity

 

 

The sources used to prepare this work are discussed at Source Texts Used for Laws of Islam. They are:  the Holy Qur’an, the 9^th century hadith collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim, The Distinguished Jurist’s Primer by the 12^th century Islamic scholar Ibn Rushd, and two works of jurisprudence from the Shaf‛i school of Sunni Islam: Risala: Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence by al-Shafi‛i and Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper by Ibn Naqib, dating from the 9^th and 14^th centuries respectively.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

1.  Introduction to the Laws of Islam Concerning Ritual Purity and Cleanliness  

 

2.  Overview of Ritual Purity and Cleanliness

 

3.  Foods and Animal Materials that are Filth  

 

4.  Filth from Bodily Emissions

 

5.  Ablution

 

6.  Impurity Requiring a Bath of Purification

 

7.  Dry Ablution

 

8.  Modesty when Praying

 

9.  Personal Grooming

 

 

Source Texts Used for Laws of Islam

 

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