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In Islam, as in other civilisations, birth and then the transition from one stage in life to another (as well as from group to group, or from one social situation to the next) is marked by various ceremonies. The purpose of these ceremonies is ‘to enable the individual to pass from one defined position to another which is equally well-defined’.1
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A. van Gennep, The Rites of Passage (London and Henley, 1977), p. 3.
See, for instance, G.C. Anawati and L. Gardet, Mystique musulmane (Paris, 1961), p. 42;
P. Nwyia, Exégèse coranique et langage mystique (Beirut, 1970), pp. 235, 305.
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Gil‘adi, A. (1992). On Taḥnīk — an Early Islamics Childhood Rite. In: Children of Islam. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378476_3
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