Feb 29 2008


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History of Marriage in the Arab World

Posted at 9:23 pm under dating

Marriage is one of the hot issues whenever Islam or the Muslim world is in question because the Western world finds it very hard to come to grips with the question of why in the history of marriage, Muhammad had seven wives and why Muslim men are allowed to have four wives. They see this as a blatant move towards oppression of women. However the history of marriage in the Muslim world needs to be read in context of what society's issues were 1400 years ago and the ruling behind these laws.

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