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Laws of Islam Concerning Women and Men

Summaries, with complete referencing, of key source texts

for the laws of Islam concerning

sexuality and relations between the sexes.

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.