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Thus, traditional interpretations of Islamic law do recognize the legitimacy of a Muslim man's marriage if he marries a Non-Muslim woman, but only if she is Jewish, Christian, or Sabian. [3] On the other hand, a Muslim woman may not marry a Non-Muslim man.
Islamic marital practices are traditions and practices that relate to wedding ceremonies and marriage rituals in the Muslim world. Although Islamic marriage customs and relations vary depending on country of origin and government regulations, Muslims from around the world are guided by Islamic laws and practices specified in the Quran. [1]
In some Christian churches, such as the western and some eastern sections of the Catholic Church, priests and bishops must as a rule be unmarried men. In others, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the churches of Oriental Orthodoxy and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests, but may not remarry if their wife dies, and celibacy is required ...
The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, in general, rule out ordination of married men to the episcopate, and marriage after priestly ordination. Throughout the Catholic Church, East as well as West, a priest may not marry. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, a married priest is one who married before being ordained.
Interfaith marriage, sometimes called interreligious marriage or "mixed marriage", is marriage between spouses professing different religions. Although interfaith marriages are often established as civil marriages , in some instances they may be established as a religious marriage .
For the controversy over whether Islam is a religion or a political system, see Raymond Leo Burke#Islam and immigration; For the controversy over advice not to marry a Muslim and move to an Islamic country, see José Policarpo#Marriages with Muslim men
Marital conversion is religious conversion upon marriage, either as a conciliatory act, or a mandated requirement according to a particular religious belief. [1] Endogamous religious cultures may have certain opposition to interfaith marriage and ethnic assimilation, and may assert prohibitions against the conversion ("marrying out") of one their own claimed adherents.
Whilst traditional Islamic scholarship upholds the notion that Islamic law permits polygyny and furthermore enforces the divine command to "marry only one" where the man fears being unable to fulfil the rights of two in a fair manner, a substantial segment of the Islamic scholarship elaborates further on the ruling regarding men who are able to ensure complete equality amongst the multiple wives.