What is marriage and how does it work? What is its history? How is it changing? What does scripture say about marriage?
Recent reports of under-age marriages in Australia are evidence that the authorities need to do more to enforce marriage laws in Western nations, and to restrict the practice of unregistered ‘clandestine’ religious marriages, particularly Islamic marriages. Two cases recently came to public attention of NSW
Today the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Michael Smith, 2UE Radio Host, is being investigated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority “over his assertion that the prophet Muhammad ‘married a nine-year-old and consummated it when she was 11′”. It would be excellent if Australian
This week Baroness Caroline Cox launched a bill in the House of Lords to impose principles of gender equality upon the sharia courts of Britain. This proposal reflects a growing groundswell of concern about the impact of these courts upon the lives of Muslim women.
In April 2009, the Islamic Fiqh Academy made a ruling entitled ‘Domestic Violence’. (See here, pp.15-18 of the PDF). This is a highly significant document which reflects a high-level consensus of leading Muslim scholars in the world today. It was clearly issued in the context
