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Implications of the official designation of Muslim clergy as authorized civil marriage officers for Muslims polygynous interfaith and same sex marriage in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2017)
From 2014 to 2017 some 227 South African Muslim clergy, including three females, graduated as civil marriage officers in terms of the Marriage Act 25 of 1961. Although now vested with dual capacity to perform both Muslim ...
Part two: Debunking prevailing scholarly views pertaining to the apostasy of alleged descendants of Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar
(UIN Sunan Kalijaga, 2020)
This paper is the second part of the two articles that discuss the controversy
over the conversion of religion in the family of Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar
after being exiled in South Africa during the Dutch colonial period ...
How loud is too loud? Competing rights to religious freedom and property and the Muslim call to prayer (Adhan or Azan) in South Africa
(MPDI, 2021)
This article approaches the position of the call to prayer (adhan or azan) in South Africa
from the perspective of both legislation and case law. Although only an unamplified adhan has
religious status in Islam, Muslim ...
The Flying Hadji
(Stellenbosch: Institute for Theological Interdisciplinary Research (EFSA) in cooperation with CCAWT Research, 2000)
All things considered, becoming a Muslim theologian was high on my list of possible vocations at the end of high school. Unfortunately for me, this was not to be I was a Muslim woman with a dream at the wrong time. Instead, ...
Chapter 6: Culture and religion
(Juta, 2007)
This chapter deals with the relationship between gender equality and rights to practice culture and religion. In South Africa this relationship is of crucial importance to women who live according to the rules and principles ...