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Islamic jurisprudence plays a significant role in the legal systems of Muslim-majority countries, with some countries basing most laws explicitly on Sharia.
The provocative line — “A man may have sexual relations with animals, but he must slaughter the animal after orgasm and sell the meat to infidels” — is widely attributed online to Ayatollah Ruhollah K...
and many mainstream jurists permit women to enter and worship in mosques; is reported to have told people not to prevent women from attending the mosque . In practice access depends on local custom, m...
The Quran does not use the Arabic word "burqa" and contains no verse that prescribes the full-body face-covering known today as the burqa; instead it addresses modesty using terms such as khimar and j...
No — Muslim-majority countries do not uniformly "follow "; instead they occupy a spectrum from states that base most laws explicitly on Sharia to countries where Sharia influences only family law or i...
Contemporary Muslim-majority countries reflect a spectrum of approaches to the : many state and scholarly traditions emphasize self-defence, legal limits, and non‑aggression, while others — driven by ...