ikhtilat

The interview, reproduced by Saudi Gazette last Friday, witnessed Al-Ghamdi praise the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and make declarations on the subject of the mixing of genders - "ikhtilat" - which raised the eyebrows of many observers.

Crossroads Arabia 2009

"ikhtilat" - has provoked an overwhelmingly positive response, according to Al-Arabiya news network.

Crossroads Arabia 2009

"The term 'ikhtilat' [gender mixing] in this usage is a recent adoption that was unknown to the early people of knowledge ...

altmuslim 2010

Sheik Sheikh, in the 2010 interview, he argued that ikhtilat , the mixing of males men and females, isn't proscribed by Islamic law and that women can do all jobs in Saudi society.

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The move was cheered by many activists and reformers who argue that ikhtilat is a modern term and is not proscribed by Islamic law.

Second-Class Citizens 2010

Religious police have traditionally enforced a rigid separation of the sexes in public places, arresting those that commit the crime of ikhtilat, or "mixing."

Second-Class Citizens 2010

Al-Mubarak supported his view that ikhtilat was lawful.

arabnews - frontpage 2010

"Al-Ghamdi's claim that I supported his view on the permissibility of ikhtilat (gender mixing) is something that never happened in the past and will not in the future," Al-Mubarak said in a question-and-answer session at the College of Shariah and Islamic Studies in the

arabnews - frontpage 2010

Are the ones who are happy with the confusion between khulwa and ikhtilat pushing back, and with sufficient leverage to get Al-Ghamdi fired?

Crossroads Arabia 2009

The head of the Mecca branch of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice went on record last week, pointing out that Saudis had followed a wrong path that seemingly equated the sin/crime of khulwa, improper seclusion with a member of the opposite sex, with ikhtilat, simple social mixing of the sexes in benign environments.

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