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Principles & Frameworks
Principles and Frameworks are guides distill complex concepts into accessible structures that support ethical decision-making, relational responsibility, and thoughtful engagement with modern life.
Core Islamic Principles for Addressing Child Sexual Abuse
This guide is produced through a collaboration between Maʿruf Commons, Hurma Project, and Islamic School League of America (ISLA) to specifically address the core Islamic principles needed to ensure children’s safety from sexual abuse in Muslim spaces.
This resource serves as a foundational guiding document for the Islamic School League ISLA’s Sexual Abuse Prevention Toolkit by offering faith-rooted guidance that supports professional safeguarding standards and trauma-informed practice. It also supplements the Hurma Project’s forthcoming Handbook for Preventing and Responding to Spiritual Abuse in Muslim Spaces by focusing specifically on child sexual abuse and drawing on the foundational insights of the Hurma Project.
How We Study Islamic Law and Why it Matters
The way Islamic law is taught in English-speaking Muslim communities today determines not only what Muslims believe the law is, but also how they apply it, whether in their families, finances, communities, or civic life. Each approach to learning carries profound opportunities when it is used for its intended purpose and practiced with care, and it carries serious risks when its purpose is misunderstood or its execution is poor.
NEW: Islamic Principles for Parent-Adult Child Relationships
Relationships between parents and children are complex, especially as children mature into adulthood and parents move into later stages of life. This framework distills nine Islamically rooted principles that provide a clear roadmap for recognizing what faith-aligned and healthy relationships between parents and adult children look like in practice.
