Endnotes: chapter five

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1. Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, Ihya' ulum al-din (Cairo, n.d.), 4:746.
2. Abu `Abd al-Rahman al-Nasa'i, Ishrat al-nisa (Beirut, n.d.), p.131.
3. ibid. p.148.
4. ibid.
5. Ihya' `ulum al-din, 4:746.
6. ibid.
7. ibid. 4:747.
8. ibid.
9. ibid.
10. ibid.
11. ibid. 4:748-751
12. "If a man calls his wife to his bed (i.e. to have sexual relations); and she refuses and causes him to sleep the night in anger, the angels will curse her till morning" (al-Bukhari, Bad' al-khalq 7; Abu Dawud, Nikah 41).
13. al-Kasani, 2:331.
14. `Abd al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi, Kitab ahkam al-nisa' (Beirut, 1988), p.72.
15. Magdi al-Sayyid Ibrahim, Bida` wa khurafat al-nisa (Cairo, 1992), p.61ff.

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