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Polygamy in Islaam
By Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips & Jameelah Jones
Pages: 100 Binding: Paperback
'Polygamy is the Muslim practice most frequently and severely maligned by
Westerners and modernist Muslims. This book can be read with profit by all
unprejudiced readers who wish to know its justification and rationale.
One of the greatest contrasts between Islam and the West is their conflicting
concepts of relations between the sexes. Indeed, the very first question a
Muslim convert is confronted with by an American or European is ‘Why does
Islam allow four wives?’ This book...replies straightforwardly to that
question and much more.
The authors describe all the most important characteristics of marriage in
Islam, pointing out that the Western notions of sex equality and romantic
premarital ‘love’ are not necessary in Islamic marriage based on piety and
the commitment on the part of both parents to win the pleasure of Almighty
Allah.'
This book contains basic guides for anyone interested in
understanding the rights and obligations of males and females in Islamic plural
marriage. The guidelines have been drawn from the Quran, Hadith and opinions of
Islamic scholars.
Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips was
born in Jamaica, but grew up in Canada, where he accepted Islam in 1972. He
completed a diploma in Arabic and a B.A. from the College of Islamic Disciplines
(Usool ad-Deen) at the Islamic University of Madeenah in 1979. At the University
of Riyadh, College of Education, he completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology in
1985, and in the department of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales, he
completed a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology in 1994.
Abu Ameenah taught Islamic
Education and Arabic in private schools in Riyadh for over ten years and for
three years he lectured M.Ed. students in the Islamic Studies department of
Shariff Kabunsuan Islamic University in Cotobato City, Mindanao, Philippines.
Since 1994 he has founded and directed the Islamic Information Center in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates (which is now known as Discover Islam) and the Foreign
Literature Department of Dar al Fatah Islamic Press in Sharjah, UAE. Presently,
he is a lecturer of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University in
Dubai and Ajman University in Ajman, UAE. 'If
ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women
of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able
to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands
possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice'
{TM Qur'an An-Nisa (The Women) 4:3}
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