Polygamy

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Social Issues

 

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James C

 

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March 25, 2011

 

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University

 

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A

 

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Here we will examine the practice of polygamy in Islam and those laws which govern its legality. Muhammad did not introduce this practice, as has so often been wrongly alleged. The Scriptures and the other sacred books bear abundant proof of the fact that is was recognized as lawful and, indeed, widely practised by patriarchal prophets, Zoroastrians, Hindus and Jews...
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In Arabia and all the surrounding countries a system of temporary marriages, marriages of convenience, and unrestricted concubinage was also prevalent: this, together with polygamy, had most disastrous effects on the entire moral and social structure, which Muhammad remedied. Muhammad married Khadija at the age of 25, and he took no other wife during the twenty-six years of their married life...
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