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Although [[circumcision]] is never mentioned in the Qur'an, male circumcision is deeply rooted in the Muslim tradition. Muhammad is reported to have prescribed cutting the [[foreskin]] as a fitrah, a measure of personal cleanliness. Modern Muslims see circumcision as essential to their faith, although they have also come to lean on arguments of "medical benefits." A conference of Islamic scholars in 1987 stated that modern circumcision studies “[reflect] the wisdom of the Islamic statements”.<ref>{{GollaherDL 2000}}</ref>
The Muslim code of religious law (AKA Shariah) recommends performance of [[circumcision]] at the age of seven days. In practice, however, Muslim boys are [[circumcised]] at varying ages before puberty,<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Morgenstern
|first=Julian
|init=J
|title=Rites of Birth, Marriage, Death and Kindred Occasions among the Semites
|location=Chicago
|publisher=Quadrangle Books
|year=1966
|pages=48-66
|quote=...in modern Moslem practice the rite is performed generally between the ages of two and seven years... as late as the thirteenth year.
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|last=Mehta
|first=Depak
|chapter=Circumcision, Body, Masculinity
|title=Violence and Subjectivity
|editors=Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, et al.
|location=Berkeley
|publisher={{UNI|University of California|UCBE}} Press
|year=2000
|page=82
|quote=...two to six years.
}}</ref> however, it is no less injurious or traumatic.
Islam has a long violent tradition of using the sword to advance Islam.
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