The accusation that the Prophet Muhammad was a “paedophile” usually rests on a familiar historical claim: that Aisha was married to Muhammad at six and that the marriage was consummated when she was nine. That account appears explicitly in Sahih al-Bukhari, one of the …… Read More “Was Prophet Muhammad a Paedophile? Historical Marriage, Other Religious Traditions, and the Evolution of Consent — What Critics of Islam Say and What History Shows”

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