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Polygamy is legal in 58 out of nearly 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of them being Muslim-majority countries. Some countries that permit polygamy have restrictions, such as requiring the first wife to give her consent. In countries that ban polygamy, the offence is commonly called bigamy, though
Bigamy is a crime in most countries that recognise only monogamous marriages. When it occurs in this context often neither the first nor second spouse is aware of the other. In countries that have bigamy laws, with a few exceptions (such as Egypt and Iran ), consent from a prior spouse makes no difference to the legality of the second marriage ...
Polygamy is legal in Egypt. [ 1 ] In 2019, Ahmed al-Tayeb , the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar , caused controversy by ruling that polygamy is unlawful for Muslims , but he did not call for a legal prohibition of polygamy.
Ages of consent by country, sex, sex difference, age difference and authority between partners Countries and states Must be married Restricted by age difference Restricted by authority Unrestricted Ref. Hetero Homo Hetero Homo Hetero Homo; M F M F M F M F M F M F Australian Capital Territory: No 10: 16: 18 [2] [3] New South Wales: No 14: 16: 17 ...
Egypt's personal status laws underwent many changes between 1979 and 1985, but in the end they were very restrictive for women and reduced the limits on polygyny. [30] This incentivized Egyptian feminists to create a new marriage contract (approved in 2000) that would give women some rights concerning divorce and what was allowable in marriage ...
Egypt's parliament has passed a new law that will categorize social media accounts and blogs with more than 5,000 followers as media outlets. As such, they'll be regulated by the Supreme Council ...
In addition to noting that countries where polygyny is widely practiced tend to have higher homicide rates and rates of rape, political scientists Valerie M. Hudson and Bradley Thayer have argued that because Islam is the only major religious tradition where polygyny is still largely condoned, the higher degrees of marital inequality in Islamic ...
Evidence for polygamy in ancient Egypt can be found among both the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom. [3]During the dynastic rule of Amenophis III, numerous polygynous marriages between Amenophis III and foreign princesses occurred, which later led to the princesses being buried in the Valley of the Queens along with the following description of them as part of the harem of the king: “'She of ...