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For years, women have struggled to find a clear, accessible guide on menstruation — a subject surrounded by confusion, scattered rulings, dense classical texts, and no single book they could actually rely on.
This is the first modern, beautifully designed translation of Imām al-Birgiwi’s manual on women’s purity — the classical authority on menstruation, postnatal bleeding, and irregular bleeding.
Everything is colour-coded, diagrammed, clarified, and explained in a way women can finally understand, use, and trust.
This isn’t just a Fiqh book.
It’s a long-overdue resource for Muslim women.
If there is one area of Islamic law where modern Muslim women feel the most confused, it is this:
Menstruation and purity.
Not because the rulings don’t exist — they do.
Not because scholars didn’t address them — they did.
But because the classical texts are dense, inaccessible, unindexed, scattered, and written in ways that ordinary women simply cannot use in their everyday lives.
The emotional pain runs deeper:
Women often feel embarrassed asking male scholars.
They doubt their worship because they’re uncertain about the rulings.
They feel spiritually distant during menstruation.
They feel alone with questions they never had the language or resources to navigate.
And the practical pain?
There is no single modern book that extensively lays everything out clearly — every ruling, every exception, every scenario — in a format women can understand without needing a scholar beside them.
Until now.
Understanding Menstruation is the first book of its kind:
a complete, modern, accessible translation and commentary on Imām al-Birgiwi’s authoritative guide — the text historically used to teach menstruation rulings across the Ottoman Empire and beyond.
But this edition does something no translation ever has:
Before this book:
Women feel confused about rulings, unsure if their worship is valid, embarrassed to ask, spiritually unsettled, and practically lost.
After this book:
They feel clear, confident, spiritually at ease, able to navigate every scenario with certainty, and empowered with a handbook designed for them, not for scholars alone.
This book finally gives Muslim women what they should have always had:
A beautiful, structured, compassionate guide to one of the most important chapters of their spiritual lives.
Inside Understanding Menstruation, you’ll find:
This is the book Muslim women have needed for decades — finally written with the clarity, beauty, and respect they deserve.
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