Ibn al-Qalbi, Kitab al-asnam, p. 46

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Al-durar al-htsan wa na'im al-jinan; Al-lmam Abd al-Rahman Ibn Ahmad al-Qadi, Daqa'iq al-akhbar fi dhikr al-janna wal-nar. (These two work are usually published together, one being presented as the annotation of the other.)

Ibid.

Imam Bukhari, Al-Sahih, vol. 2, p. 217

Fatima Mernissi, Beyond the Veil, Chapter 2, »The Regulation of Female Sexuality in the Muslim Social Order,« pp. 15-28

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 50

Imam Ghazzali, Ihwa' 'ulum al-din, pp. 49-50

The takbir is the ritual Islamic formula: »God is the greatest"; the tahlil is the ritual formula: »There is no god but God.«

Imam Bukhari, Al-Sahih. This passage is translated from the following source: O. Hondas, trans., Al-Bukhari, traditions islamiques (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1908), vol. 3, p. 578