Circumcision is not mentioned in the Quran. It is universal among Muslim men anyway, kept on the practice of the Prophet and classed as obligatory by some schools and strongly recommended by others, which is a clear case of the sunna carrying weight the text does not. Timing varies enormously — the seventh day in much of the Arab world, later childhood in Turkey and South Asia, up to about twelve in parts of Central Asia. In Turkey the sünnet düğünü, the circumcision wedding, dresses the boy in a white satin costume and cap, parades him, and throws him a party with gifts and music; the medical procedure is almost incidental to the social event, which is his day of being treated as a person in his own right. Female genital cutting is a separate matter, practised in some Muslim-majority regions and in some non-Muslim ones, with no basis in the Quran; Al-Azhar and many other authorities have ruled against it explicitly, and it is best understood as a regional custom that acquired religious cover.