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This guide is produced through a collaboration between Maʿruf Commons, Hurma Project, and Islamic School League of America (ISLA) to specifically address the core Islamic principles needed to ensure children’s safety from sexual abuse in Muslim spaces. 

There is no simple answer. The challenges are multi-layered and stem from several interrelated factors. By Dr. Mariam Sheibani

Islamic legal debate today has moved from the closed circles of specialist scholars, where it remained until the turn of the 20th century, to the open […]

The presence of different family law systems across Muslim-majority states raises a question as to whether these systems represent a departure from the Islamic legal system or the […]

In the language of our spiritual tradition, Eid is not only a day, it is a constant renewal of a state of presence, of witnessing, of […]

Over the past ten days, Muslims have been engaged in a debate about the legitimacy of secret marriages, prompted by a young daʿi who propositioned a […]

*An updated version of this essay was published as an Al Jazeera oped.  Content warning: sexual abuse, spiritual abuse. While I was a PhD student at […]

This academic semester I’m teaching an undergraduate seminar on Islamic spirituality, which draws on both Muslim and non-Muslim experts of the history and theory of the […]