Choosing a Spouse

Choosing a Spouse

Marriage Contract and Mahr

Concluding a marriage: pillars and conditions, the guardian and witnesses, the mahr, marriage without a guardian or in secret, and the validity of a contract.

Rights of Spouses

Divorce and Its Rulings

Ending a marriage and what follows: the procedure of divorce, khul', annulment, iddah, taking the wife back, and the spouses' obligations after separation.

Interfaith Marriage

Intimacy

Custody and Maintenance

In-Laws and Extended Family

Polygamy

Kinship, Lineage and Marriage Impediments

Kinship and its consequences: who is a mahram; impediments to marriage by lineage, marriage and breastfeeding; establishing or denying paternity (firash, li'an, DNA), and the status of a child born outside marriage.

Divorce Wording, Oaths and Conditions

Whether particular words, conditional formulas, oaths sworn by divorce, or utterances in anger, jest or doubt count as divorce, and how many divorces they effect; also zihar and ila' (vows concerning the wife) and their expiation.