My wife took shahada during our nikah 1.5 years ago but recently told me she did it out of fear, love, and wanting to please me. She now says she’s unsure if she ever truly believed, though she ...

I later left the Pentecostal religion at 10 to be a Lutheran. Aside from my discrepancies with Christianity, I went to church every Sunday, read the Bible (still do), taught vacation Bible school, and ...

A few months ago, Amina El Mahdhi was forced to go abroad to marry the man she loved. He is a Christian, and it was illegal in Tunisia for a Muslim woman to have an interfaith marriage. “I refused to ...

This is the Season 2 finale of “Who’s Afraid of Aymann Ismail?,” a series featuring Slate’s Aymann Ismail investigating fears about Muslims in America. Watch the entire series. I was married over the ...

Increasing numbers of Muslim couples in Kerala are remarrying under the Special Marriage Act to ensure daughters get an equal share of family property—rights they believe Muslim personal law does not ...

In early July, Jahed Choudhury married his partner at a registry office in the West Midlands. It was christened the “first gay Muslim wedding” by the British tabloid press. Dressed in golden South ...

In Islam, marriage is considered both a social agreement and a legal contract. In modern times, the marriage contract is signed in the presence of an Islamic judge, imam, or trusted community elder ...

The pandemic was less than ideal for relationships. Some locked down couples rekindled love, whilst others reconsidered things. With human interaction shifting online, and more traditional ways of ...