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Meanwhile, contemporary Islamic jurisprudence generally accepts the possibility for transgender people ( mukhannith / mutarajjilah) to change their gender status, but only after surgery, linking one's gender to biological markers. [5] Trans people are nonetheless confronted with stigma, discrimination, intimidation, and harassment in many Muslim majority societies. [6] Transgender identities ...
The large majority of Muslims live in former West Germany, including West Berlin. However, unlike in most other European countries, sizeable Muslim communities exist in some rural regions of Germany, especially Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and parts of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Various styles of head coverings, most notably the khimar, hijab, chador, niqab, paranja, yashmak, tudong, shayla, safseri, carşaf, haik, dupatta, boshiya and burqa, are worn by Muslim women around the world, where the practice varies from mandatory to optional or restricted in different majority Muslim and non-Muslim countries.
Child marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, between a child and an adult, or between a child and another child. [1] Although the age of majority (legal adulthood) and marriage age are typically 18 years old, these thresholds can differ in different jurisdictions. [2] In some regions, the legal age for marriage can ...
Necla Kelek (born 1957) is a Turkish-German feminist and social scientist. Raheel Raza (born 1949/1950) is a Pakistani-Canadian moderate Muslim critical of "Islamic extremism" and of what she has called "inequality toward Muslim women". [35]
Islamic feminists Since the mid-nineteenth century, Muslim women and men have been critical of restrictions placed on women regarding education, seclusion, veiling, polygyny, slavery, and concubinage. Modern Muslims have questioned these practices and advocated for reform. [1] There is an ongoing debate about the status of women in Islam.
The Ahmadi community in Germany consists mainly of Pakistani immigrants with a relatively small number of native German converts. Significant communities exist in Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Bremen. [6] The Khadija Mosque in Berlin, designed and financed by Ahmadi Muslim women in Germany was opened in 2008.
The following is a list of notable Turkish Germans. This includes people of full or partial ethnic Turkish origin born in Germany, as well as ethnic Turkish immigrants who have arrived in Germany either from the Seljuk and Ottoman territories or from post-Ottoman modern nation-states (especially from the Republic of Turkey, but also from the Balkans, Cyprus, as well as other parts of the ...