| GOING SWIMMING FULLY CLOTHED A Brief Introduction to Islamic Law The title Going Swimming Fully Clothed was inspired by What To Wear At The Beach, one of our more popular postings on Islam. The following Table of Contents is incomplete. A few more additions and modifications can be expected before the release of our companion guide to The Complete Layman’s Guide to the Koran. Contents (1st and 2nd drafts) Introduction - Getting Our Feet Wet Criminal Law Misdemeanours Family Law Sources of Islamic Law An Ever Expanding Law How the Koran Came To Be Non-Muslims and the Koran Criminal Law Adultery, Heresy, Larceny and Murder Manslaughter Battery Rape A Case Study in Islamic Justice Family Law Unequal Before the Law Death Benefits - Who Gets What Husband Dies Wife Dies Divorce Simple and Complicated Origins The Science of Hadiths Prejudicial Hadiths Hadiths As a Window Into the Prophet's Psyche The Why and Wherefore of Hadiths (Examples) Filling in the Blanks Prayer Amplification Killing apostates Sex on demand Slavery Clarification Graven images and children's toys Coitus interruptus during the rape of captives Wives and their travelling companions Making a man Muhram through suckling Wives and the call of nature. Divorcing in a single breath Remarrying after having been divorced by an impotent man Whipping your wife Prostitution Additions The hadith against innovation The Does and Don'ts of Wife Beating According to the Ulema Believing in Things You Know to Be Untrue Muslims in Space Speculation on the Root Cause of the Double Standard in Islamic Law A Prophet and a Prude The Cult of Masculinity Afterword ... Appendices Stoning - Precedent and Ritual
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