{
 "id": "practice/khitan",
 "class": "practice",
 "slug": "khitan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الختان",
  "en": "Male circumcision"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ختان الذكور؛ فطرة عند الفقهاء وعادة مؤكدة في الشرع والعرف، تختلف أعماره وصور احتفاله بين البلدان.",
  "en": "Male circumcision; counted among the fitra by jurists and a firmly rooted practice in law and custom, with ages and celebrations varying by country."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "living"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship",
  "health-body-death",
  "children-and-youth"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "rite_of_passage",
  "obligation": "cultural",
  "when": {
   "ar": "في الصغر، وتختلف السن بين البلدان"
  },
  "basis": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "value": "prophetic-practice"
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Qur'an refs via Tanzil; fiqh via standard madhhab literature",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), practices lane"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ختان الذكور؛ فطرة عند الفقهاء وعادة مؤكدة في الشرع والعرف، تختلف أعماره وصور احتفاله بين البلدان. {{cite:sahih-al-bukhari}}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "practice/khitan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Circumcision of males; a natural practice according to the jurists and a confirmed custom in the law and in custom, its age and forms of celebration vary between countries. {{cite:sahih-al-bukhari}}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "practice/khitan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/social-condition-jahiliyya",
  "event/lidud-of-the-prophet",
  "practice/aqiqa",
  "screen/abuna-2002",
  "screen/al-marad-al-kabir-2017",
  "screen/hifz-salat-dilisa-2011",
  "screen/moozlum-2011",
  "screen/nussa-2019"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}