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Chapter 36 - Temporary Marriage in Iranian Family Law

Mukhtaṣar-i Ḥuqūq-i Khānivādih (2015) of Sayyid Ḥusayn Ṣafāyī and Asad Allāh Imāmī

from Part V - Judicial Manuals and Reference Books

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

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Hannah L. Richter
Edited by
Omar Anchassi  and
Robert Gleave
Omar Anchassi
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Robert Gleave
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Summary

This chapter discusses an extract from the Iranian legal textbook Mukhtaṣar-i Huqūq-i Khānivādih (‘A Concise Summary of Family Law’) of the Iranian legal scholars Sayyid Ḥusayn Ṣafāyī and Asad Allāh Imāmī. The 42nd revised edition of this text, published in Tehran in 2015, gives an overview of Iranian family law and is aimed specifically at students of law. The 472 pages of the book cover marriage, divorce, parentage, and filiation. This chapter focuses on temporary marriage (commonly known as sīgheh in Persian), which is characterised by the exact determination of the duration of the marriage when contracted. This form of marriage is permitted in Twelver Shī’ī (Imāmī) law, while being strictly rejected in all schools of Sunnī law.

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Personal status lawTemporary marriage (Ar. mutʿaPer. sīgheh)Iranian legal systemmarriage contract (ʿaqd al-nikāḥ)
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Islamic Law in Context
A Primary Source Reader
 , pp. 375 - 383
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Qānūn-i Madanī; first promulgated: 1307Sh (1928); most recent amendment 2006), available at https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/97937.Google Scholar
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Ṣafāyī, Sayyid Ḥusayn and Imāmī, Asad Allāh. Mukhtaṣar-i Ḥuqūq-i Khānivādih (Tehran: Mīzān, 2015).Google Scholar

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