Episode Details

Episode seventeen of the second season of the Podcast on Crimes Against Women continues our four-part series on faith responses to domestic violence and sexual assault with Imam Omar Suleiman, Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University. Imam Suleiman examines the Islamic faith’s view of domestic violence and how this has changed over time, how Islam speaks about domestic violence in its teachings, and what is being done about addressing this issue more directly with other Islamic leaders and followers. Imam Suleiman then goes on to discuss the reactions he receives on his work from other faith officials in the Islamic community, how the patriarchal element of this religion shapes the conversation of DV within Islam, and the changes he would like to see in the future to the approach or conversation around DV within Islam.