A critical analysis of the impact of early marriage on girls based on published autobiographies and a contemporary scholarly text – Īḍāḥ al-bayān fī nikāḥ al-ṣibyān

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Mayberry, John F. 2024. « A Critical Analysis of the Impact of Early Marriage on Girls Based on Published Autobiographies and a Contemporary Scholarly Text – Īḍāḥ Al-bayān Fī nikāḥ Al-ṣibyān ». Medico-Legal Journal 93 (1). doi:10.1177/00258172241286642, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/52703

Titre

A critical analysis of the impact of early marriage on girls based on published autobiographies and a contemporary scholarly text – Īḍāḥ al-bayān fī nikāḥ al-ṣibyān

Créateur

Mayberry, John F. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Sujet

Fiqh -- mariage Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Background
This work emerged from a need to better understand the “lived experience” of early marriage for girls and how it should impact on contemporary attitudes in the Muslim community and encourage it to support the international movement with the aim of a minimum common age of 18 years for marriage of young people.
Objective
To identify from contemporary published literature, including autobiographies and religious texts dealing specifically with early marriage, the effects of early marriage on individuals and to set this as a background to the extensive literature on its medical, psychological and social impact.
Participants and setting: The setting is the published words of two women and a man who were involved in early marriages and a commentary on the topic by an Ibadi theologian.
Methods
The documents were identified through searching a range of databases using various search engines. Texts were then analysed for key terms describing the impact of early marriage and these were then grouped into themes.
Findings
The extracts raise questions linked to the issue of consent and the role of adult coercion, including physical force and threat of harm. In practice girls are given in marriage by their guardians against their wishes and international conventions on the rights and care of children, as well as that outlined in Qur’an 4 v6.
Conclusion
Modern Muslim states face a real challenge in implementing 18 as the minimum age for marriage, especially in how to manage opposition to appropriate new legislation from some traditionalist groups.

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Medico-Legal Journal Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

volume

93

numéro

1

Date

2025

Titre abrégé

Med Leg J

Langue

eng

doi

10.1177/00258172241286642

issn

0025-8172

uri

https://doi.org/10.1177/00258172241286642

Mayberry, John F. 2024. « A Critical Analysis of the Impact of Early Marriage on Girls Based on Published Autobiographies and a Contemporary Scholarly Text – Īḍāḥ Al-bayān Fī nikāḥ Al-ṣibyān ». Medico-Legal Journal 93 (1). doi:10.1177/00258172241286642, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/52703