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Neutral tone? "deft stratagems of omission and commission"

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At the time of writing this Talk topic, the article stated: "colonizing powers sought to regulate the age of consent... such efforts ran into conflicts with local forms of Sharia, [and] Aisha's age at marriage... In response, some Muslims chose to... re-calculated her age – using deft stratagems of omission and commission – to fix it at early adolescence..."

This doesn't sound at all fair - "deft stratagems of omission and commission".

The parent article Wives of Muhammad was far less dismissive of the scholarly debate over the age at which the marriage was consummated: "many non-Muslim historians, Islamic scholars, and Muslim writers have challenged the previously accepted timeline of her life by claiming that Aisha was in fact 18–19 years old when she consummated her marriage to Muhammad according to historical reviews."

As far as I can tell, neither article contains supporting references on this point that are freely downloadable, which makes fact-checking practically impossible. The parent article gives six references to the dispute over her age at the time of consummation; this article gives just one reference, purportedly dismissing the scholarly debate as "deft stratagems of omission and commission". MathewMunro (talk) 06:03, 28 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Luckily there are online bookshops, and that makes fact-checking practical. There is no requirement for sources to be available online.-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:29, 12 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Wives of Muhammad isn't the "parent" article for Aisha. Aisha is the main article when it comes to Aisha's biography. The section on Aisha in the Wives of Muhammad article is supposed to be an overview/summary of Aisha. — Longewal (talk) 01:40, 14 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Age of Jubayr

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jubayr was more than 30 years older ~2026-33391-97 (talk) 17:27, 5 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

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hello there, i haven’t read all the article, but i want to comment on one part, Aisha, may God be pleased with her, was never threatened with stoning to death, please correct your mistake. Thank you in advance ~2026-37274-31 (talk) 01:50, 29 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done – please clarify Can you specify which section you're referring to? The only mention of stoning the article I can find says that she might have been stoned if the rumors were true, not that she was threatened with stoning. Streetr4 (talk) 03:59, 29 June 2026 (UTC)Reply