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  • Chapter 36 - Temporary Marriage in Iranian Family Law

  • from Part V - Judicial Manuals and Reference Books
  • Edited by Omar Anchassi, Universität Bern, Switzerland, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    Islamic Law in Context
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 375-383

  • 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.