... and independent will. Admission to faith is entirely a personal matter. Nor does a woman become a Muslim merely because of her relationship to father, husband or any other male. Muslim women, on the strength of their unshakable personal faith, used to work for the propagation of Islam. Many of them ... to a man for marriage, orally or in writing, she can freely choose her spouse, reject a suitor she does not like or obtain divorce from an estranged husband against his will. But a male relative normally formalizes the marriage contract and marriage dissolution or divorce on a woman's initi...

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... morals he now possesses to directly effect the role these forces will have. Once the happening of the identity crisis enters a teen's life, in an ideal world, he/she will then be able to deal with the lack of external input, and from then on will have a semi- permanent identity ... himself on how to respond rather than outward. Amin Maalouf discusses identity in a way that relates greatly to Erikson. He talks of the many different elements that form an identity, like: religion, nationality, profession, sex, connection with: a sport, group of friends, union, company, parish, community... S...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate