RELIGST 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Marriage, Yasser Arafat, Shampoo

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2Q03
• Professor: Liyakat Takim

Document Summary

Before islam: two types of marriage: permanent, everyone (both shia and sunni accepted permanent marriages, tribal; political convenience, to allow islam survive created alliances; Marriage of political convenience at the time; tribal rivalries; tribal financial deals, etc. Alliances and the way that tribes survived was through. Ignoring the problem of historical nuance; cultural relativism; When khadija died the prophet was single, then he married again. Changes that took place in islamic law (permanent marriage: four schools of law in sunni islam. In marriage there are certain responsibilities; man has to provide maintenance. Men are the maintainers (whatever he makes in terms of money, it belongs to his wife and him, but whatever money the wife makes she is not obligated to spend it on anyone else, but on herself) Historical during the ottoman period, many women worked from home making clothes, and selling these in the market.