Islamic Marriage Customs Vary, Depending On Country Of Origin And Government

Nevertheless, arrange marriages still take place in the Arab societies frequently and the expectation of the women is to fully take care of the families and household. However, if a career women in the Arab societies seek and obtain a high degree, still she need to consult her husband for his decision and approval. Lastly, with Arab women who are divorced are likely to suffer socially and emotionally abuse. In fact, Arab woman‘s tolerate many years of abuse from their husbands in order not to endure the divorce sigma from the Muslim society, avoiding losing her children to her husband and become an outcast from her society..

Marriage is described as two people as partners in a personal relationship. There are two typical ideas of marriage that we know today. The first one that comes to mind is the one we all know, based on love, but there is another one that some may not even know of and its arranged marriages. Arranged marriage is not typically in our culture we know but in different cultures arranged marriages are their normal marriage. Throughout this essay, I will discuss the importance of realizing cultural diversity and how we apply the perspectives we gain from cross-cultural comparison to our own experience using central concepts about marriage to compare and contrast marriage in several cultures.

Marriage practices vary across cultures. Every culture has its own way of conducting marriage according to their traditions and customs. Most cultures share common customs and practices, while some cultures have unique practices. Marriage refers to a social union agreed upon by the couples to unit as spouses. The union of couples implies sexual relations, permanence in union, and procreation. This research paper focuses on comparing marriage practices in American and Indian culture. There is significant difference between the two cultures in marriage practices.

The people that practice this religion are not oppose to marrying more than one wife. In the Quran, it states that a man is allowed to marry up to four wives. It also states that if a man does marry multiple wives there are rules that he must obey. The first is the original wife or the first wife must agree to let her husband take another wife. Secondly, if the man takes up multiple wives he must provide for the both of them. Meaning if they don't all live together and one of the wives live in a separate home, this newlywed husband must pay the bills for two households. Lastly, if the man cannot afford his wives he is then only allowed to have

Marriage is an important part of the Christian life a the purpose of Christian marriage is faithfulness to one another, many Christians teach than within marriage there is a natural hierarchy that reflects the relationship of Christ and the church. The Roman Catholic Church says “wives, in the same way be submissive to your husband… Husband, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect” (1 peter 3:1, 7). Whereas the Church of England argues that the relationship is based upon Christ’s headship over the church and is about love and sacrifice, not domination and power. This argument originally started as the bible said “a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh” (genesis 2:24). On the other hand, in the Islamic faith marriage is only a way to make sex and having children legal and lawful, the belief also states in the eyes of Allah both members of the relationship are treated equally even though they have separate duties.

Marriage celebrated in the Persian culture ceremonial wise, as well as its values has been proven to be different to the western ideals of marriage in its traditional sense. For a questionnaire response, participants were asked if the tradition, concept and values of marriage were changing for the Persian women who migrate to Australia. 69 of the 81 (85.18%) respondents believed so and the remaining argued against.

Women can only have so many children so the need for multiple wives became a must.

In Middle Eastern families, marriages are typically endogamous and it is considered as a holy celebration. Men have been taught to be family’s providers and take care of their wives and kids. Women on the other hand, have been taught to take care of the home and the kids, obey her husband, and be friendly with her inlaws.

The reason for this is that marriage certificates, and bonuses of law regarding marriage are all laws and have nothing to do with the wellbeing of their religion, so it was concluded that marriage itself in the legal stance should be the same.

It provides one of the great outlets for social intercourse and enjoyment." In Islam, Ph. D. Farah expresses from the previous quote is that the jointment of marriage serves to emphasize the significance attached to family life as a force for unity in Islamic society. "The… and they have taken a strong pledge (Mithaqun Ghaltihun) from you?" The Quran specifically refers to marriage as "Mithaqun Ghalithun," which means "a strong agreement." The seriousness of this of this covenant becomes very obvious when one finds the same term, Mithaqun Ghaltihun, being used for the agreement trade between Allah and the Prophet before granting them the responsibility of Parenthood. Like anything else in their society that the Muslim does, marriage is taught not to be undertaken until gaining an understanding of all that Allah has prescribed in terms of rights and obligations as well as gaining a understanding of the wisdom behind the institution. A Muslim is not to engage in something that is important as marriage unless there is a full understanding of the purpose of marriage in Islam.

Being married to one or more women has been very popular in the past. Many countries give the permission to marry one or more women including Morocco. The idea behind this habits is to boost the chance of having boys to carry the name of the father over the time. In fact, the idea of marrying more than one person is not only limited to man but also for women . Women can also marry several man at the same time and we call this Polyandry. Polyandry is very rare comparing to polygamy simply because by definition polyandry exists only in two part in the world. On the other hand, Polygamy was the only solution to protect the human kind from from extinction and garantee the continuity

“Polygyny” and “Polyandry” seem to be parallel structure, but our society tends to have positive perception toward “Polygyny” and negative perception toward “Polyandry”. As most of the countries are patriarchal society, we think that “Polygyny” is more reasonable than “Polyandry”. Besides, Muslim support the practice of “Polygyny” but none of the religion support “Polyandry” in our society. Because of the stereotyped gender role and social ideology in modern society, most of the male’s role is hegemony in the world. It is the result of patriarchal society. This is the reason of why we think that man can have more than one wife rather than a woman have more than one

The idea of having more than one spouse originated millions of years ago. During times when the female population was higher than the male population, polygamy was common so that each female could have a sense of financial stability from a husband. Polygamy was accepted throughout societies because of the need for woman to have a husband to financially support her and give her a family. Then when better medical care was able to save more lives the male and female population became almost equal in numbers, this caused the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church to impose the rule of having just one wife, but multiple other lovers were the norm (History of Polygamy). Polygamy was then unacceptable in the United States when The Roman Catholic Church imposed the new rule. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints allowed polygamy into the United Sates (History of Polygamy). When polygamy was allowed back into the United States many people were upset with the unethical practice being allowed back into the United States. Polygamy in the United States ended back in the year 1890 when Wilford Woodruff was the president. But officially it was the year 1899 when the members of this church began to be thrown out for being polygamous (History

Marriage is a ritual that takes place to form a formal union between a man and a woman for starting a family. In Afghanistan, it is believed that marriages are made by the almightily Allah and it is a bond and promise not only between two people but also between two families from different backgrounds. Therefore, as Afghanistan is a conservative society built upon traditional and Islamic principles, marriage is considered the only acceptable way for a man and a woman for forming a lifelong bond and relationship. The Afghani cultural marriage has its own practices and rituals which makes it completely different and though attractive to the outsiders. For example, in the West, a marriage ceremony includes engagement, wedding ceremony and

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