The FGM hadith give very few clues as to the nature of the practice they approve.
However, Qur'an 30:30, by exhorting Muslims to 'adhere to the fitrah' indirectly, but ineluctably exhorts Muslims to engage in FGM. The Qur'an contains no explicit mention of FGM. Two other hadith record the sahabah (Companions of Mohammed) engaging in the practice. Muhammad maintained the practice after migrating to Medina and is recorded as approving of the practice in four hadith. The Banu Quraysh, Muhammad's native tribe, appear to have engaged in the practice (see FGM before Islam). World maps comparing distributions of FGM and of MuslimsįGM predates Islam. About one in eighty (1.28%) non-Muslim women are genitally mutilated world-wide. the Egyptian Copts ), or to non-Islamic societies that have been hubs of the Islamic slave trade (e.g. The 20% of FGM attributable to non-Muslims occurs in communities living in FGM-practicing Islamic societies (e.g. And assuming a world population of Muslims of 1.7 billion, this means that at least one in five (20%) Muslim women is mutilated.įGM is found only in or adjacent to Islamic groups. Assuming a world population of 7.9 billion, this means that about one in twenty girls or women world-wide have undergone FGM.Ībout 80% of this FGM is attributable to Muslims. UNICEF's 2016 report into FGM estimates that in the 30 countries surveyed at least 200 million girls and women have undergone FGM. Infibulation usually includes clitoridectomy. A third practice, Infibulation (or Pharaonic circumcision), is the paring back of the outer labia, whose cut edges are then stitched together to form, once healed, a seal that covers both the openings of the vagina and the urethra. Excision is the cutting away of either or both the inner or outer labia.
Clitoridectomy is the amputation of part or all of the clitoris (or the removal of the clitoral prepuce). It can involve both or either Clitoridectomy and Excision. Female Genital Mutilation (Arabic: ختان المرأة) is the practice of cutting away and altering the external female genitalia for ritual or religious purposes.
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