I guess, overall, this is a decent enough book if you know absolutely nothing about fasting. However, if you do, and particularly if you are familiar with the intricacies of the madhab you follow, if you follow a specific madhab, you might not gain that much from it. You'd already know the basics, and as for the specifics, your madhab might very well vary in its teachings. Also, I always laugh when male scholars discuss the fiqh of feminine issues when it's clear the barely have a grasp of femin [...]

Disclaimer: i am not Muslim, and i don't know too much about the religionat said, i read this because a friend of mine has recently converted and married a Muslim man, so i was curious to see what this part of it was all about. i found it very interesting.

This book got into a lot of nitty gritty nuts and bolts about keeping a fast. Somehow this approach left me with more questions than answers. What if a woman is pregnant and nursing for all her childbearing years? Does she have to spend the rest of her life fasting to make up for it?